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Birthday November 7, 1885

• The temperature on November 7, 1885 was about 3.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 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 year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
  • April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
  • July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

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• 1879 » King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1879 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army († 1940)
• 1886 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician († 1935)
• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1888 » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, founded the Black Army († 1934)
• 1890 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator († 1972)