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Birthday May 13, 1885

• The temperature on May 13, 1885 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. 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 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)