Eijsermans family tree » Johannes van Mierlo (1885-????)

Birthday February 3, 1885

• The temperature on February 3, 1885 was about 5.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. 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.
  • March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
  • March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
  • May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
  • September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
  • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)
• 1889 » Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic († 1977)
• 1889 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1892 » Juan Negrín, Spanish physician and politician, 67th Prime Minister of Spain († 1956)
• 1893 » Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician and academic († 1978)