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Birthday January 27, 1878

• The temperature on January 27, 1878 was about -1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1878 » Dorothy Scarborough, American author († 1935)
• 1885 » Jerome Kern, American composer and songwriter († 1945)
• 1885 » Seison Maeda, Japanese painter († 1977)
• 1886 » Radhabinod Pal, Indian academic and jurist († 1967)
• 1889 » Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic († 1959)