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Birthday August 1, 1886

• The temperature on August 1, 1886 was about 16.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
  • 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 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1961)
• 1881 » Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic († 1940)
• 1885 » George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)
• 1889 » Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic († 1979)
• 1891 » Karl Kobelt, Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation († 1968)
• 1893 » Alexander of Greece († 1920)