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Birthday November 24, 1886

• The temperature on November 24, 1886 was about 5.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • 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.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • 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 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel († 1963)
• 1885 » Christian Wirth, German SS officer († 1944)
• 1885 » Theodor Altermann, Estonian actor, director, and producer († 1915)
• 1886 » Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review († 1973)
• 1887 » Erich von Manstein, German field marshal († 1973)
• 1887 » Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower († 1960)