Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Jan van Rij (1886-????)

Birthday June 5, 1886

• The temperature on June 5, 1886 was about 12.5 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 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 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Robert Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist († 1985)
• 1883 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist, philosopher, and academic († 1946)
• 1884 » Frederick Lorz, American runner († 1914)
• 1884 » Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author († 1969)
• 1884 » Ralph Benatzky, Czech-Swiss composer († 1957)
• 1892 » Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter († 1944)