Database Van Broekhoven » Johanna Maria Huijbers (1890-1937)

Day of marriage November 26, 1917

• The temperature on November 26, 1917 was between 1.4 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
  • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.

Day of death December 11, 1937

• The temperature on December 11, 1937 was between -1.7 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
  • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
  • December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1937 » Hugh Thackeray Turner, English architect and painter (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1941 » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)