Database Van Broekhoven » Gerrit de Boer (1882-1959)

Day of marriage September 26, 1906

• The temperature on September 26, 1906 was between 0.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 22 » The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Day of death May 20, 1959

• The temperature on May 20, 1959 was between 11.4 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
  • June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
  • June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
  • September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
  • November 19 » The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
  • November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1949 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)
• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)