Genealogy Repelaer » Barbera HITZERT (1886-????)

Birthday August 14, 1886

• The temperature on August 14, 1886 was about 17.1 °C. There was 5 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 94%. 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 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
  • 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.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • 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 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)
• 1883 » Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic († 1941)
• 1886 » Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic († 1950)
• 1887 » Marija Leiko, Latvian actress († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia († 1976)
• 1890 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman († 1946)