FutureHistory » Petrus Arthur van Landeghem (1885-????)

Birthday April 7, 1885

• The temperature on April 7, 1885 was about 11.4 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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.
  • February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • April 2 » Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
  • 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.
  • November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
  • November 19 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1883 » Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author († 1966)
• 1884 » Clement Smoot, American golfer († 1963)
• 1886 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier († 1971)
• 1889 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)