Family tree De Backer - Evers » Joseph Antonius Augustus van Eyen (1885-1977)

Birthday November 25, 1885

• The temperature on November 25, 1885 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
  • July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
  • November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » John Flynn, Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia († 1951)
• 1881 » Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic († 1958)
• 1881 » Pope John XXIII († 1963)
• 1883 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author († 1939)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist († 1943)
• 1889 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright († 1956)