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Birthday April 6, 1886

• The temperature on April 6, 1886 was about 9.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 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.
  • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1886 » Athenagoras I of Constantinople († 1972)
• 1886 » Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler († 1967)
• 1886 » Walter Dandy, American physician and neurosurgeon († 1946)
• 1888 » Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic († 1967)
• 1888 » Hans Richter, Swiss painter, illustrator, and director († 1976)