Dreyer Tree » Susanna Catharina Magdalena Klopper (1871-1916)

Day of marriage February 25, 1890

• The temperature on February 25, 1890 was about -0.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
  • April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
  • July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
  • December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

Day of death March 4, 1916

• The temperature on March 4, 1916 was between -1.6 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
  • July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
  • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » John Schofield, American general and politician, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831)
• 1915 » William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1916 » Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 1925 » James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 » John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1925 » Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (b. 1854)