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Birthday January 29, 1885

• The temperature on January 29, 1885 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
  • May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
  • June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
  • 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.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1881 » Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist († 1975)
• 1884 » Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor († 1982)
• 1888 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist († 1970)
• 1888 » Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman († 1985)
• 1891 » Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina and educator († 1975)