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Birthday October 19, 1885

• The temperature on October 19, 1885 was about 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
  • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
  • July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
  • 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.
  • November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian lawyer and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1941)
• 1876 » Mordecai Brown, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1945)
• 1879 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist († 1919)
• 1882 » Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor († 1916)
• 1885 » Charles E. Merrill, American banker and philanthropist, co-founded Merrill Lynch Wealth Management († 1956)
• 1895 » Frank Durbin, American soldier († 1999)