Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes de Nijs (1870-1934)

Day of marriage September 18, 1928

• The temperature on September 18, 1928 was between 4.8 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Day of death September 7, 1934

• The temperature on September 7, 1934 was between 10.3 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
  • February 2 » The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
  • June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
  • July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
  • September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
  • November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (b. 1873)
• 1940 » José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan soldier and politician, President of Paraguay (b. 1888)
• 1941 » Mario García Menocal, Cuban lawyer and politician, President of Cuba (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (b. 1855)