Family tree Lars Werner » Hendrikje Gerritje CORNELISSEN (1885-????)

Birthday November 23, 1885

• The temperature on November 23, 1885 was about 0.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
  • December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
  • December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter († 1949)
• 1886 » Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director († 1966)
• 1887 » Boris Karloff, English actor († 1969)
• 1887 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist († 1915)
• 1888 » Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician († 1964)
• 1889 » Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman († 1964)