Lax Family Tree » Johannes Wolfgang Perls (1885-????)

Birthday August 26, 1885

• The temperature on August 26, 1885 was about 16.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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.
  • March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
  • March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
  • April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
  • June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
  • July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic († 1918)
• 1882 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1882 » Sam Hardy, English footballer († 1966)
• 1885 » Jules Romains, French author and poet († 1972)
• 1888 » Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer († 1974)
• 1891 » Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright († 1960)