Genealogy Van Eck op Goeree Overflakkee » Hendrik van WARENDORP (1832-1915)

Day of death April 1, 1915

• The temperature on April 1, 1915 was between -3.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Charles Wells, English founder of Charles Wells Ltd (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1917 » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (b. 1868)
• 1920 » Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Charles I, emperor of Austria (b. 1887)
• 1922 » Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist and author (b. 1884)