Family tree Kueter » Jan Dirk BOKS (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.
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • 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 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
  • March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
  • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

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)