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Birthday January 15, 1881

• The temperature on January 15, 1881 was about -14.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Lewis Terman, American psychologist, eugenicist, and academic († 1956)
• 1878 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer († 1941)
• 1879 » Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright († 1961)
• 1882 » Henry Burr, Canadian singer, radio performer, and producer († 1941)
• 1885 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player († 1968)
• 1885 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and author († 1973)