Database Van Broekhoven » Theodorus Johannes Marinus van der Lee (1885-????)

Birthday October 22, 1885

• The temperature on October 22, 1885 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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.
  • January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
  • March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
  • March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
  • 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.
  • June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
  • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

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• 1881 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1882 » Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator († 1953)
• 1882 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator († 1945)
• 1885 » Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor († 1969)
• 1886 » Erik Bergman, Swedish minister († 1970)
• 1887 » John Reed, American journalist and poet († 1920)