Genealogy Van Eck op Goeree Overflakkee » Anna Adriana RISSIK (1886-????)

Birthday December 7, 1886

• The temperature on December 7, 1886 was about 8.9 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 38 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 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.
  • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
  • 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.
  • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
  • 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.
  • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » John Carpenter, American sprinter († 1933)
• 1885 » Mason Phelps, American golfer († 1945)
• 1885 » Peter Sturholdt, American boxer and painter († 1919)
• 1887 » Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and songwriter († 1964)
• 1888 » Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician († 1991)
• 1888 » Joyce Cary, Irish novelist († 1957)