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Birthday February 9, 1883

  • The temperature on February 9, 1883 was about 7.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
    • February 23 » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
    • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
    • June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
    • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
    • 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.
    • December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

Day of death March 31, 1906

  • The temperature on March 31, 1906 was between 3.0 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
    • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
    • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
    • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
    • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
    • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.


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  • 1878 » Jack Kirwan, Irish international footballer († 1959)
  • 1880 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1959)
  • 1883 » Jules Berry, French actor and director († 1951)
  • 1885 » Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator († 1935)
  • 1885 » Clarence H. Haring, American historian and author († 1960)
  • 1889 » Larry Semon, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter († 1928)

Source: Wikipedia


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