Genealogy Keemink » Willem Izak Burger (1886-1935)

Day of marriage August 10, 1911

• The temperature on August 10, 1911 was between 18.4 °C and 34.9 °C and averaged 26.0 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Day of death May 19, 1935

• The temperature on May 19, 1935 was between 3.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
  • February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
  • May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
  • November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » T. E. Lawrence, British colonel and archaeologist (b. 1888)
• 1936 » Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)