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Birthday April 8, 1885

• The temperature on April 8, 1885 was about 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
  • 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 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
  • September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
  • September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
  • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)
• 1886 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright († 1967)
• 1888 » Dennis Chávez, American journalist and politician († 1962)