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Birthday December 26, 1880

• The temperature on December 26, 1880 was about 3.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
  • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
  • June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
  • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
  • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
  • November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1872 » Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1873 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer († 1953)
• 1874 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic († 1965)
• 1883 » Maurice Utrillo, French painter († 1955)
• 1885 » Bazoline Estelle Usher, African-American educator († 1992)
• 1887 » Arthur Percival, English general († 1966)