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Birthday January 16, 1883

• The temperature on January 16, 1883 was about 2.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 24 » The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
  • May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  • October 4 » First run of the Orient Express.
  • November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

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• 1880 » Samuel Jones, American high jumper († 1954)
• 1882 » Margaret Wilson, American author († 1973)
• 1885 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator († 1967)
• 1888 » Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic († 1945)