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Birthday August 2, 1884

• The temperature on August 2, 1884 was about 26.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • 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 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Arthur Dove, American painter and educator († 1946)
• 1882 » Albert Bloch, American painter and academic († 1961)
• 1882 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager († 1936)
• 1884 » Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan author and politician, 46th President of Venezuela († 1969)
• 1886 » John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia († 1961)
• 1887 » Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician († 1960)