Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Hubertus Maria Wolters (1875-1915)

Day of marriage August 7, 1906

• The temperature on August 7, 1906 was between 8.1 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Day of death June 9, 1915

• The temperature on June 9, 1915 was between 14.9 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). 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 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.
  • January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
• 1901 » Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
• 1923 » Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
• 1927 » Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
• 1929 » Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
• 1929 » Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)