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Birthday November 19, 1884

• The temperature on November 19, 1884 was about 1.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist († 1964)
• 1877 » Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival († 1947)
• 1883 » Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer († 1957)
• 1887 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1888 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian († 1942)
• 1889 » Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1966)