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Birthday January 9, 1886

• The temperature on January 9, 1886 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 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.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic († 1938)
• 1885 » Charles Bacon, American runner and hurdler († 1968)
• 1886 » Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and instrument designer († 1943)
• 1889 » Vrindavan Lal Verma, Indian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1890 » Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright († 1938)
• 1890 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author († 1935)