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Birthday July 19, 1888

• The temperature on July 19, 1888 was about 14.5 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
  • October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
  • October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer († 1972)
• 1886 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1957)
• 1888 » Enno Lolling, German physician († 1945)
• 1890 » George II of Greece († 1947)
• 1892 » Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1957)
• 1893 » Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet († 1930)