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Birthday July 6, 1884

• The temperature on July 6, 1884 was about 23.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland († 1971)
• 1884 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor († 1970)
• 1885 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1886 » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic († 1944)
• 1887 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress († 1975)
• 1887 » Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet († 1985)