Genealogy Van Assen » Jan Jans (1852-1925)

Day of marriage November 23, 1881

• The temperature on November 23, 1881 was about 10.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Day of death May 19, 1925

• The temperature on May 19, 1925 was between 15.0 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
  • April 4 » The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi party in Germany.
  • May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
  • May 30 » May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
  • November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
  • December 11 » Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.

Day of burial May 23, 1925

• The temperature on May 23, 1925 was between 9.6 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (57%). 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
  • January 30 » The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
  • March 21 » Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • May 5 » Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
  • May 30 » May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
  • July 21 » Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150mph (241km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33mph (242km/h).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (b. 1847)
• 1915 » John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (b. 1892)
• 1918 » Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (b. 1885)
• 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)