Genealogy Pot en Smit » ANNA MARIA BENDELER (1847-1925)

Day of marriage February 3, 1893

• The temperature on February 3, 1893 was about 0.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
  • June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

Day of death July 15, 1925

• The temperature on July 15, 1925 was between 12.2 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • March 18 » The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
  • March 21 » Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
  • 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).
  • August 9 » A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1932 » Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
• 1932 » Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)