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Birthday March 24, 1881

• The temperature on March 24, 1881 was about 8.8 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer († 1953)
• 1882 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)