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Birthday November 3, 1885

• The temperature on November 3, 1885 was about 10.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
  • January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
  • 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.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Indian Carnatic singer and activist († 1952)
• 1882 » Yakub Kolas, Belarusian writer († 1956)
• 1884 » Joseph William Martin, Jr., American publisher and politician, 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1968)
• 1887 » Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet († 1964)
• 1890 » Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch-Brazilian priest and missionary († 1943)
• 1890 » Harry Stephen Keeler, American author († 1967)