Family tree Van Dijk » Johanna Hendrica (Johanna, Hendrica) Beusenberg (1886-????)

Birthday June 19, 1886

• The temperature on June 19, 1886 was about 11.2 °C. There was 15 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 1886: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator († 1966)
• 1883 » Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder († 1970)
• 1884 » Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian († 1974)
• 1886 » Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician († 1940)
• 1888 » Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot († 1970)
• 1891 » John Heartfield, German photographer and activist († 1968)