Database Van Broekhoven » Hermanus van Kuijk (1869-1951)

Day of marriage January 12, 1910

• The temperature on January 12, 1910 was between -0.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
  • April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
  • April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

Day of death April 5, 1951

• The temperature on April 5, 1951 was between 1.8 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
  • February 25 » The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
  • March 3 » Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
  • May 14 » Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
  • October 20 » The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1949 » Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (b. 1886)
• 1950 » Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (b. 1876)
• 1952 » Agnes Morton, British tennis player (b.
• 1954 » Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)
• 1954 » Princess Märtha of Sweden, (b. 1901)