De bomen van Kreijkes » Fred Kreykes (1897-1950)

Day of marriage February 5, 1920

• The temperature on February 5, 1920 was between -1.6 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (56%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
  • May 7 » Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  • July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
  • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
  • October 30 » The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
  • November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France

Day of death February 27, 1950

• The temperature on February 27, 1950 was between -3.4 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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)
• 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 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • May 19 » Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
  • June 1 » The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
  • July 5 » Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
  • July 16 » Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
  • November 1 » Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
  • November 21 » Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint, foundress of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)
• 1937 » Hosteen Klah, Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867)
• 1943 » Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1956 » Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)