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Birthday November 25, 1884

• The temperature on November 25, 1884 was about -0.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • 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 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author († 1960)
• 1880 » John Flynn, Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia († 1951)
• 1881 » Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic († 1958)
• 1881 » Pope John XXIII († 1963)
• 1883 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author († 1939)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist († 1943)