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Birthday July 11, 1881

• The temperature on July 11, 1881 was about 19.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
  • September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
  • November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » H. M. Brock, British painter and illustrator († 1960)
• 1880 » Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic († 1964)
• 1881 » Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author († 1966)
• 1882 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger († 1946)
• 1886 » Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator († 1939)
• 1888 » Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist († 1985)