Family tree Nieuwenhuizen-Van Ginkel en De Kruijf-Grootendorst » Klaas Timmer (1885-????)

Birthday February 10, 1885

• The temperature on February 10, 1885 was about 1.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
  • April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
  • 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.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director († 1954)
• 1883 » Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer († 1959)
• 1883 » H.V. Hordern, Australian cricketer († 1938)
• 1889 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey († 1982)
• 1890 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1890 » Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist († 1918)