Family tree Jacobs » Adriana Maria van Merrienboer (1886-????)

Birthday January 5, 1886

• The temperature on January 5, 1886 was about 3.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
  • 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.
  • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1881 » Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter († 1934)
• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)
• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1892 » Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse († 1984)