Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmus van Falier (1885-1953)

Day of marriage May 15, 1919

• The temperature on May 15, 1919 was between 10.0 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • February 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
  • March 2 » The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
  • May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
  • September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Day of death February 13, 1953

• The temperature on February 13, 1953 was between -2.6 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
  • March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
  • March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
  • September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (b. 1875)
• 1951 » Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (b. 1877)
• 1952 » Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (b. 1880)