Genealogy van het geslacht Dongelmans » Johanna Petronella van der Kuil (1886-????)

Birthday February 7, 1886

• The temperature on February 7, 1886 was about -3.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
  • September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1889 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist († 1976)
• 1893 » Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1988)
• 1893 » Nicanor Abelardo, Filipino pianist, composer and teacher († 1934)