Family tree Van Walleghem Huyghe (België) » Achille Camille Bouttelgier (1885-????)

Birthday November 7, 1885

• The temperature on November 7, 1885 was about 3.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
  • January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1879 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army († 1940)
• 1886 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician († 1935)
• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1888 » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, founded the Black Army († 1934)
• 1890 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator († 1972)