Family Tree Marcia Boris » Ada Belle Lewis (1885-????)

Birthday June 24, 1885

• The temperature on June 24, 1885 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
  • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
  • December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Arthur L. Newton, American runner († 1956)
• 1883 » Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (d.1942)
• 1883 » Jean Metzinger, French artist († 1956)
• 1883 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1884 » Frank Waller, American runner († 1941)
• 1885 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist († 1975)