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Birthday March 31, 1883

• The temperature on March 31, 1883 was about 11.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
  • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
  • October 20 » Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
  • December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Borisav Stanković, Serbian author († 1927)
• 1878 » Jack Johnson, American boxer († 1946)
• 1884 » Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic († 1946)
• 1885 » Pascin, Sephardi Jewish Bulgarian-American painter and illustrator († 1930)
• 1890 » Ben Adams, American jumper († 1961)
• 1890 » William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)