Family tree Jan Werkman » Hilbrand Zuidema (1873-1954)

Day of marriage May 17, 1924

• The temperature on May 17, 1924 was between 4.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Day of death August 16, 1954

• The temperature on August 16, 1954 was between 8.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
  • May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
  • September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
  • October 10 » The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)