Family tree Saenen en verwanten » Maria Mathildis Gielen (1885-????)

Birthday June 24, 1885

• The temperature on June 24, 1885 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
  • March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
  • May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
  • June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
  • July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
  • July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Arthur L. Newton, American runner († 1956)
• 1883 » Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (d.1942)
• 1883 » Jean Metzinger, French artist († 1956)
• 1883 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1884 » Frank Waller, American runner († 1941)
• 1885 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist († 1975)