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Birthday July 22, 1885

• The temperature on July 22, 1885 was about 13.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
  • November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher († 1967)
• 1884 » Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut († 1967)
• 1886 » Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author († 1954)
• 1887 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1888 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic († 1950)
• 1888 » Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)