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Birthday March 16, 1886

• The temperature on March 16, 1886 was about 1.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
  • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
  • 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 » Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author († 1960)
• 1885 » Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist († 1943)
• 1885 » Sydney Chaplin, English actor († 1965)
• 1886 » Herbert Lindström, Swedish tug of war player († 1951)
• 1887 » Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner († 1925)
• 1887 » S. Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist (1984)