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Birthday December 23, 1881

• The temperature on December 23, 1881 was about 1.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company († 1919)
• 1870 » John Marin, American architect and painter († 1953)
• 1878 » Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Pierre Brissaud, French illustrator, painter, and engraver († 1964)
• 1894 » Arthur Gilligan, English cricketer († 1976)
• 1895 » Nola Luxford, New Zealand-American actress and broadcaster († 1994)