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Birthday October 6, 1886

• The temperature on October 6, 1886 was about 17.5 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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.
  • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
  • 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.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1891 » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator († 1946)
• 1893 » Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1956)