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Birthday September 26, 1885

• The temperature on September 26, 1885 was about 7.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
  • April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
  • June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
  • July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
  • September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist († 1951)
• 1886 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1977)
• 1887 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director († 1967)
• 1887 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb († 1979)
• 1887 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet († 1958)
• 1888 » J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author († 1964)