Genealogy Van Dijken » Johannes Hendrikus Dulos (1886-????)

Birthday February 2, 1886

• The temperature on February 2, 1886 was about 1.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
  • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
  • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark († 1944)
• 1883 » Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro († 1958)
• 1883 » Julia Nava de Ruisánchez, Mexican activist and writer († 1964)
• 1886 » William Rose Benét, American poet and author († 1950)
• 1887 » Ernst Hanfstaengl, German businessman († 1975)
• 1889 » Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general († 1952)