Genealogische gegevens uit Noord-Oost Overijssel » levenloos geboren zoontje (1885-1885)

Birthday July 6, 1885

• The temperature on July 6, 1885 was about 23.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • 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.
  • 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 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland († 1971)
• 1884 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor († 1970)
• 1885 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1886 » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic († 1944)
• 1887 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress († 1975)
• 1887 » Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet († 1985)