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Birthday March 24, 1883

• The temperature on March 24, 1883 was about -1.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
  • October 22 » Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Vienna, Austria, first electric tram powered by overhead wire.
  • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
  • November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal († 1972)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)