Family tree Weening » Hendrik van Dijk (1885-????)

Birthday March 24, 1885

• The temperature on March 24, 1885 was about 4.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
  • March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
  • 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.
  • September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
  • December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal († 1972)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)
• 1885 » Charles Daniels, American swimmer († 1973)
• 1885 » Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer († 1978)
• 1886 » Edward Weston, American photographer († 1958)