Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Elisabeth Spierings (1889-1950)

Day of marriage January 14, 1910

• The temperature on January 14, 1910 was between 0.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
  • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

Day of death March 25, 1950

• The temperature on March 25, 1950 was between 3.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
  • May 29 » The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • July 16 » Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
  • August 1 » Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
  • October 9 » The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
  • November 25 » The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » William Carr, American rower (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Lou Moore, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1956 » Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1958 » Tom Brown, American trombonist (b. 1888)