Family tree Van Luijk » Cornelis Michiel de Pooter (1885-????)

Birthday March 29, 1885

• The temperature on March 29, 1885 was about 7.6 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. 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 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Ed Archibald, Canadian pole vaulter († 1965)
• 1885 » Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian author and poet († 1936)
• 1888 » Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-American engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante († 1963)
• 1889 » Howard Lindsay, American producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Warner Baxter, American actor († 1951)
• 1890 » Bert Bliss, English international footballer, inside forward († 1968)