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8C5R from Drewes Iwema (ca 1532 - 1583) and Reencke (ca 1540 - ?).

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Birthday September 11, 1875

  • The temperature on September 11, 1875 was about 23.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In the year 1875: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 5 » The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
    • March 3 » The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
    • May 1 » Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
    • May 20 » Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
    • June 19 » The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
    • August 25 » Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.

Day of death November 9, 1929

  • The temperature on November 9, 1929 was between 3.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (76%). 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
    • February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
    • May 1 » The 7.2 Mw  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
    • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
    • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
    • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.


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