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Birthday July 4, 1883

• The temperature on July 4, 1883 was about 25.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
  • June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
  • August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • October 22 » Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Vienna, Austria, first electric tram powered by overhead wire.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
  • December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » John McPhee, Australian journalist and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania († 1952)
• 1880 » Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1975)
• 1881 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general († 1968)
• 1883 » Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer († 1970)
• 1887 » Pio Pion, Italian engineer and businessman († 1965)
• 1888 » Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor and singer († 1945)