Barber Family Tree » Izetta Fox Brooks (1895-1952)

Day of marriage September 3, 1911

• The temperature on September 3, 1911 was between 10.6 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

Day of death June 10, 1952

• The temperature on June 10, 1952 was between 6.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
  • April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
  • May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
  • June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
  • August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
  • September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1946 » Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1852)
• 1949 » Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Angelina Weld Grimké, American journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (b. 1883)