Genealogy Zwanepol » Marie Jufina Charlotte Frederique van Kregten (1876-1939)

Day of marriage March 30, 1900

• The temperature on March 30, 1900 was about 7.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
  • December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

Day of death April 14, 1939

• The temperature on April 14, 1939 was between 9.7 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
  • March 26 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
  • June 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
  • August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
  • September 3 » World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
  • November 23 » World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1893)
• 1931 » Richard Armstedt, German philologist, historian, and educator (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Emmy Noether, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (b. 1893)
• 1943 » Yakov Dzhugashvili, Georgian-Russian lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1950 » Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1879)