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Birthday March 14, 1886

• The temperature on March 14, 1886 was about -1.7 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 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 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
  • 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 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics († 1951)
• 1879 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1882 » Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic († 1969)
• 1885 » Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1886 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist († 1964)
• 1887 » Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company († 1962)