Genealogy Moelker » Gerardus Moelker (1886-1959)

Christening day March 20, 1886

• The temperature on March 20, 1886 was about 8.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
  • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
  • May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
  • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

Day of marriage June 30, 1915

• The temperature on June 30, 1915 was between 12.8 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Day of death November 1, 1959

• The temperature on November 1, 1959 was between -0.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
  • August 3 » Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
  • September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
  • October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
  • December 3 » The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
  • December 13 » Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.

Day of burial November 5, 1959

• The temperature on November 5, 1959 was between -1.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
  • June 9 » The USSGeorge Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
  • August 11 » Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
  • September 15 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
  • October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
  • October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1955 » Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet, author, and diplomat (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892)