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Birthday December 21, 1884

• The temperature on December 21, 1884 was about 3.8 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher († 1956)
• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)
• 1885 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1960)
• 1888 » Jean Bouin, French runner and rugby player († 1914)
• 1889 » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist († 1988)
• 1890 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)