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Birthday December 16, 1884

• The temperature on December 16, 1884 was about 3.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist († 1963)
• 1882 » Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist († 1967)
• 1883 » Károly Kós, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician († 1977)
• 1883 » Max Linder, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1925)
• 1884 » John Gunn, Australian politician, 29th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1884 » Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor († 1987)