Database Van Broekhoven » Hendrikus Joseph van Dun (1875-1924)

Day of marriage September 10, 1902

• The temperature on September 10, 1902 was between 10.8 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (66%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.

Day of death June 1, 1924

• The temperature on June 1, 1924 was between 11.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (59%). 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
  • October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
  • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
• 1927 » J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (b. 1861)
• 1927 » Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general († 1857)
• 1938 » Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)