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Birthday November 13, 1888

• The temperature on November 13, 1888 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 48 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
  • June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
  • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
  • December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1886 » Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer († 1973)
• 1893 » Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1894 » Arthur Nebe, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1894 » Bennie Moten, American pianist and bandleader († 1935)