Database Van Broekhoven » Maria van Valen (1891-1950)

Day of marriage June 10, 1915

• The temperature on June 10, 1915 was between 16.0 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 16 » At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

Day of death December 5, 1950

• The temperature on December 5, 1950 was between -6.9 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -1 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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)
• 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.
  • February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
  • May 29 » The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • June 27 » The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
  • June 28 » Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
  • June 28 » Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
  • October 19 » Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
• 1951 » Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1953 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)