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Birthday February 13, 1885

• The temperature on February 13, 1885 was about 8.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • February 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
  • August 14 » Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
  • 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 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
  • September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager († 1947)
• 1883 » Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director († 1922)
• 1884 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company († 1961)
• 1885 » Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States († 1982)
• 1887 » Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic († 1919)
• 1888 » Georgios Papandreou, Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece († 1968)