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Birthday January 9, 1881

• The temperature on January 9, 1881 was about -3.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.

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• 1875 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art († 1942)
• 1879 » John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic († 1958)
• 1881 » Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and poet († 1956)
• 1881 » Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic († 1938)
• 1885 » Charles Bacon, American runner and hurdler († 1968)
• 1886 » Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and instrument designer († 1943)