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Birthday October 9, 1881

• The temperature on October 9, 1881 was about 9.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter († 1947)
• 1877 » Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist († 1928)
• 1879 » Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1880 » Charlie Faust, American baseball player († 1915)
• 1883 » Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress († 1956)
• 1886 » Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager († 1980)