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1885 Calendar

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•  January 4, 1885 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
•  May 2, 1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
•  May 12, 1885 – North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
•  July 6, 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
•  August 29, 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
•  September 2, 1885 – 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.
•  November 16, 1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel is executed for treason.
•  November 28, 1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
•  November 29, 1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
•  December 22, 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

•  January 15, 1885 – Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
•  February 12, 1885 – Julius Streicher, Nazi German publisher (d. 1946)
•  February 25, 1885 – Sylvia Brett, British socialite and wife of Charles Vyner Brooke (d. 1971)
•  April 1, 1885 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
•  June 8, 1885 – Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
•  August 26, 1885 – Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)
•  September 12, 1885 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957)
•  October 7, 1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
•  November 2, 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
•  November 11, 1885 – George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)