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Birthday June 9, 1884

• The temperature on June 9, 1884 was about 14.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1879 » Harry DeBaecke, American rower († 1961)
• 1882 » Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach († 1963)
• 1885 » Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland († 1962)
• 1890 » Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer († 1952)
• 1891 » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter († 1964)