Database Van Broekhoven » Huberta Maria van Hemert (1890-1953)

Day of marriage June 5, 1917

• The temperature on June 5, 1917 was between 8.6 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
  • January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
  • June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
  • July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.

Day of death May 11, 1953

• The temperature on May 11, 1953 was between -1.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
  • April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
  • May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
  • November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
  • December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)