Database Van Broekhoven » Franciscus Cornelius de Rooij (1886-????)

Birthday August 26, 1886

• The temperature on August 26, 1886 was about 20.7 °C. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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.
  • May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
  • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic († 1918)
• 1882 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1882 » Sam Hardy, English footballer († 1966)
• 1885 » Jules Romains, French author and poet († 1972)
• 1888 » Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer († 1974)
• 1891 » Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright († 1960)