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Birthday November 7, 1881

• The temperature on November 7, 1881 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer († 1958)
• 1878 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic († 1968)
• 1879 » King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1879 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army († 1940)
• 1886 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician († 1935)
• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)