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Birthday July 22, 1885

• The temperature on July 22, 1885 was about 13.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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.
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
  • November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher († 1967)
• 1884 » Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut († 1967)
• 1886 » Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author († 1954)
• 1887 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1888 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic († 1950)
• 1888 » Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)