Family tree Frits Hendrix » Joannes Hubertus Simons (1885-????)

Birthday December 21, 1885

• The temperature on December 21, 1885 was about 2.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
  • January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
  • 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

• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)
• 1885 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1960)
• 1888 » Jean Bouin, French runner and rugby player († 1914)
• 1889 » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist († 1988)
• 1890 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1891 » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1980)