Database Van Broekhoven » Martinus Adrianus Dannenberg (1881-1960)

Day of marriage November 11, 1916

• The temperature on November 11, 1916 was between 5.4 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 17 » World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Day of death July 28, 1960

• The temperature on July 28, 1960 was between 8.6 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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)
• 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • May 3 » The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
  • May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
  • September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
  • November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
  • November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
• 1965 » Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
• 1965 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
• 1967 » Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)