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Birthday February 7, 1880

• The temperature on February 7, 1880 was about 4.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
  • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
  • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
  • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
  • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)