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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.
  • January 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • November 19 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

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)