Database Van Broekhoven » Regina Bressers (1869-1945)

Day of marriage September 30, 1887

• The temperature on September 30, 1887 was about 12.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
  • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
  • November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

Day of death December 27, 1945

• The temperature on December 27, 1945 was between 3.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 8 » World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
  • February 4 » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
  • April 13 » World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
  • April 29 » The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
  • May 2 » World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners.
  • October 18 » A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1938 » Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (b. 1877)
• 1943 » Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1887)
• 1950 » Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (b. 1884)