Eijsermans family tree » Rosalia Maria van Waterschoot (1886-????)

Birthday December 22, 1886

• The temperature on December 22, 1886 was about -1.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
  • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Edgard Varèse, French-American composer († 1965)
• 1883 » Marcus Hurley, American cyclist († 1941)
• 1884 » St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator († 1966)
• 1885 » Deems Taylor, American conductor and critic († 1966)
• 1887 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist († 1920)
• 1888 » J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation († 1972)