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Birthday February 10, 1888

• The temperature on February 10, 1888 was about 6.2 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • March 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
  • April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
  • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
  • August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
  • October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer († 1959)
• 1883 » H.V. Hordern, Australian cricketer († 1938)
• 1889 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey († 1982)
• 1890 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1890 » Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist († 1918)
• 1892 » Alan Hale Sr., American actor and director († 1950)