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Birthday September 28, 1886

• The temperature on September 28, 1886 was about 14.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • 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.
  • 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 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor († 1950)
• 1882 » Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer († 1963)
• 1885 » Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee († 1974)
• 1887 » Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee († 1975)
• 1889 » Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach († 1973)
• 1890 » Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer († 1982)