Eijsermans family tree » Willem de Laat (1886-????)

Birthday March 27, 1886

• The temperature on March 27, 1886 was about 13.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 32 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
  • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
  • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran accountant and politician, 40th President of Honduras († 1957)
• 1885 » Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport († 1961)
• 1886 » Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building († 1969)
• 1886 » Sergey Kirov, Russian politician († 1934)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator († 1932)