Family tree Eikelboom » Johanna Wilhelmina Mulder (1870-1947)

Day of marriage April 28, 1894

• The temperature on April 28, 1894 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
  • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  • May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
  • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.

Day of death June 26, 1947

• The temperature on June 26, 1947 was between 10.9 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
  • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
  • November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 » Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1880)
• 1947 » R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
• 1949 » Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)