Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Wilhelmina van der Toorn (1886-1886)

Day of death December 8, 1886

• The temperature on December 8, 1886 was about 4.5 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 160 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 73 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 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
  • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

Source: Wikipedia

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