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Birthday April 16, 1886

• The temperature on April 16, 1886 was about 5.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • 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.
  • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, journalist, and politician († 1963)
• 1885 » Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator († 1960)
• 1886 » Ernst Thälmann, German politician († 1944)
• 1886 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American football player and javelin thrower († 1957)
• 1888 » Billy Minter, English footballer and manager († 1940)
• 1889 » Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer († 1977)