The temperature on December 9, 1910 was between 4.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
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.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Day of death April 22, 1960
The temperature on April 22, 1960 was between 2.2 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
Day of burial April 25, 1960
The temperature on April 25, 1960 was between 4.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
January 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
January 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
August 13 » The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
September 8 » In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Ron Eummelen, "Genealogy Eummelen, Sep, Schnijderberg, Fontijne, Roggeband", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie-eummelen/I8530.php : accessed March 18, 2026), "Willem Bruin (1910-1960)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.