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Birthday July 10, 1884

  • The temperature on July 10, 1884 was about 25.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
    • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
    • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
    • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
    • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
    • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.

Day of death December 8, 1931

  • The temperature on December 8, 1931 was between 1.4 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
    • January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
    • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
    • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
    • July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
    • October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
    • December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
  • 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
  • 1883 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician († 1952)
  • 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)
  • 1888 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer († 1978)
  • 1888 » Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist († 1960)

Source: Wikipedia


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