Flowers tree » George Elam Smith (1899-1959)

Day of marriage December 6, 1919

• The temperature on December 6, 1919 was between 3.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
  • July 23 » Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
  • September 18 » Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
  • September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Day of death November 21, 1959

• The temperature on November 21, 1959 was between 2.3 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
  • February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
  • February 17 » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
  • March 31 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
  • August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
  • November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (b. 1873)
• 1958 » Mel Ott, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1909)
• 1959 » Max Baer, American boxer, referee, and actor (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Frank Amyot, Canadian canoeist (b. 1904)
• 1963 » Artur Lemba, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Robert Stroud, American ornithologist and author (b. 1890)