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Birthday December 18, 1886

• The temperature on December 18, 1886 was about 1.0 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
  • 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.
  • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway († 1950)
• 1884 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology († 1942)
• 1886 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager († 1961)
• 1887 » Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright († 1971)
• 1888 » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer († 1971)
• 1888 » Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)