Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Willem Arie van der Hoeven (1885-????)

Birthday August 4, 1885

• The temperature on August 4, 1885 was about 15.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
  • February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
  • March 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
  • May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
  • June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic († 1949)
• 1884 » Henri Cornet, French cyclist († 1941)
• 1887 » Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist († 1967)
• 1888 » Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq († 1965)
• 1890 » Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager († 1957)
• 1893 » Fritz Gause, German historian and curator († 1973)