Genealogy Harssema » Pieter Timens HORNEMAN (1884-1967)

Day of marriage May 21, 1904

• The temperature on May 21, 1904 was between 4.5 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Day of death February 21, 1967

• The temperature on February 21, 1967 was between 5.9 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 14 » Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
  • May 27 » Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
  • July 3 » The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny.
  • September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
  • October 10 » The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
  • November 21 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)