Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » Myrtle "Merta" Calhoun (1886-1978)

Birthday July 12, 1886

• The temperature on July 12, 1886 was about 16.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician († 1976)
• 1880 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1884 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor († 1920)
• 1884 » Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer († 1957)
• 1886 » Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director († 1956)
• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)