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Birthday July 25, 1878

• The temperature on July 25, 1878 was about 22.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator († 1966)
• 1875 » Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author († 1955)
• 1878 » Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese philosopher and scholar († 1949)
• 1882 » George S. Rentz, American commander († 1942)
• 1883 » Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1947)
• 1886 » Edward Cummins, American golfer († 1926)