1001 Stambomen en vele Hollandgänger van Johan Scholte » Hillebrandus Harmannus Steenhuis (1886-????)

Birthday June 7, 1886

• The temperature on June 7, 1886 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • 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.
  • September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer († 1933)
• 1883 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar († 1948)
• 1884 » Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect († 1931)
• 1886 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 († 1972)
• 1888 » Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator († 1958)
• 1892 » Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player († 1975)