Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Maria Catharina Petronella Elizabeth PRETORIUS (1886-????)

Birthday September 14, 1886

• The temperature on September 14, 1886 was about 18.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
  • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

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• 1883 » Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator († 1908)
• 1885 » Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor, composer, and critic († 1975)
• 1886 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1948)
• 1887 » Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist, 9th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) († 1954)
• 1887 » Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer († 1934)
• 1891 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1983)