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Birthday October 11, 1881

• The temperature on October 11, 1881 was about 12.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1881 » Hans Kelsen, Czech-American jurist and philosopher († 1973)
• 1884 » Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States († 1962)
• 1884 » Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1884 » Sig Ruman, German-American actor († 1967)
• 1885 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)