Family tree Van Geel » Johannes Franciscus KLAASSEN (1885-????)

Birthday September 23, 1885

• The temperature on September 23, 1885 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
  • February 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
  • July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
  • 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.
  • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli rabbi and scholar († 1968)
• 1880 » John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1889 » Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic († 1974)
• 1890 » Friedrich Paulus, German general († 1957)
• 1895 » Johnny Mokan, American baseball player († 1985)
• 1895 » Miron Merzhanov, Russian architect and engineer († 1975)