Geensen database » Pieter Cornelis Geensen (1888-1991)

Day of marriage November 17, 1910

• The temperature on November 17, 1910 was between 0.4 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
  • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

Day of death June 29, 1991

• The temperature on June 29, 1991 was between 10.5 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
  • May 28 » The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
  • September 29 » A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
  • October 5 » An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
  • October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
  • December 6 » Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city for seven months.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1992 » Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian soldier and politician, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
• 1993 » Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1994 » Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor and educator (b. 1908)
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