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Birthday July 7, 1885

• The temperature on July 7, 1885 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • 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 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

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• 1880 » Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread († 1960)
• 1882 » Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer († 1941)
• 1884 » Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright († 1958)
• 1884 » Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer († 1918)
• 1891 » Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet († 1945)
• 1891 » Virginia Rappe, American model and actress († 1921)