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Birthday October 30, 1884

• The temperature on October 30, 1884 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author († 1941)
• 1882 » Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and composer († 1957)
• 1882 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral († 1959)
• 1885 » Ezra Pound, American poet and critic († 1972)
• 1886 » Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright († 1958)