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Birthday April 10, 1884

• The temperature on April 10, 1884 was about 3.6 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. 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 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.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player († 1939)
• 1879 » Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician († 1921)
• 1880 » Frances Perkins, American sociologist, academic, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Labor († 1965)
• 1880 » Montague Summers, English clergyman and author († 1948)
• 1886 » Johnny Hayes, American runner and trainer († 1965)
• 1887 » Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)