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Birthday March 7, 1886

• The temperature on March 7, 1886 was about 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
  • May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
  • 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

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• 1886 » Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist († 1970)
• 1888 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author († 1977)