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Birthday June 11, 1885

• The temperature on June 11, 1885 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
  • May 12 » North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
  • August 14 » Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
  • December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager († 1944)
• 1880 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician († 1973)
• 1881 » Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism († 1983)
• 1881 » Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter († 1963)
• 1888 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal († 1927)
• 1889 » Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete († 1976)