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Birthday March 28, 1886

• The temperature on March 28, 1886 was about 10.7 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
  • August 31 » The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
  • September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper († 1918)
• 1884 » Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright († 1951)
• 1886 » Gustave Mesny, French general († 1945)
• 1890 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader († 1967)
• 1892 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1892 » Tom Maguire, Irish general († 1993)