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Birthday March 4, 1888

• The temperature on March 4, 1888 was about -0.7 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
  • October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
  • December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist († 1956)
• 1888 » Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player († 1972)
• 1888 » Knute Rockne, American football player and coach († 1931)
• 1888 » Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-American actress († 1942)
• 1889 » Oren E. Long, American soldier and politician, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii († 1965)
• 1889 » Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician and statistician († 1967)