Berkemeijer Genealogie » Geertje Joukes Jongsma (1869-1941)

Day of marriage November 14, 1894

• The temperature on November 14, 1894 was about 6.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Day of death February 14, 1941

• The temperature on February 14, 1941 was between 1.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
  • February 9 » World War II: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
  • March 29 » The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
  • May 24 » World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMSHood, killing all but three crewmen.
  • June 14 » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
  • October 2 » World War II: In Operation Typhoon, the Wehrmacht attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (b. 1864)
• 1942 » Adnan Saidi, Malayan lieutenant (b. 1915)
• 1943 » David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (b. 1899)
• 1948 » Mordecai Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1876)
• 1949 » Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi politician (b. 1901)