Genealogy Cevaal - Riemens - De Wit » Cornelis Hendrik van Maaren (1886-????)

Birthday November 28, 1886

• The temperature on November 28, 1886 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 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 1886: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
  • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
  • August 31 » The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
  • 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 » Alexander Blok, Russian poet and playwright († 1921)
• 1881 » Stefan Zweig, Austrian author, playwright, and journalist († 1942)
• 1887 » Ernst Röhm, German soldier and politician († 1934)
• 1891 » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician († 1949)
• 1891 » Mabel Alvarez, American painter († 1985)
• 1894 » Brooks Atkinson, American theatre critic († 1984)