Family tree Baten » Johanna Maria de Jong (1886-????)

Birthday September 26, 1886

• The temperature on September 26, 1886 was about 15.4 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 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.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
  • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
  • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist († 1951)
• 1886 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1977)
• 1887 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director († 1967)
• 1887 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb († 1979)
• 1887 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet († 1958)
• 1888 » J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author († 1964)