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Birthday January 21, 1878

• The temperature on January 21, 1878 was about 10.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 45 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
  • March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

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• 1877 » Baldassarre Negroni, Italian director and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1878 » Vahan Tekeyan, Armenian poet and activist († 1948)
• 1879 » Joseph Roffo, French rugby player and tug of war competitor († 1933)
• 1880 » George Van Biesbroeck, Belgian–American astronomer († 1974)
• 1881 » Ernst Fast, Swedish runner († 1959)