Colan-O'Leary Tree » Edward (Eddie) Forbes (1890-1952)

Day of marriage November 11, 1912

• The temperature on November 11, 1912 was between 2.4 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Day of death January 24, 1952

• The temperature on January 24, 1952 was between -2.2 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
  • February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
  • April 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
  • April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
  • October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
  • October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » John Burns, English trade union leader and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1858)
• 1960 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)