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Birthday July 5, 1881

• The temperature on July 5, 1881 was about 27.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War († 1945)
• 1879 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player and educator († 1959)
• 1880 » Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright († 1945)
• 1880 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer († 1940)
• 1882 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator († 1927)
• 1883 » Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian, author, and academic († 1975)