Genealogieën Bex/Vromen/Overhof(f)/Herings » Guillaume (Gilles) BEX (1873-1948)

Day of marriage March 9, 1914

• The temperature on March 9, 1914 was between 5.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 20.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
  • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

Day of death January 31, 1948

• The temperature on January 31, 1948 was between 7.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • March 20 » With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
  • April 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
  • June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
  • June 24 » Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
  • July 12 » Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
  • September 4 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.

Day of burial February 4, 1948

• The temperature on February 4, 1948 was between 3.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
  • July 16 » The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
  • August 12 » Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
  • September 14 » The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
  • September 18 » Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
  • December 26 » The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)