De bomen van Kreijkes » Hendrika Reuvekamp (1842-1921)

Day of marriage November 14, 1868

• The temperature on November 14, 1868 was about 4.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1868: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
  • March 5 » Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
  • April 7 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
  • June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
  • July 25 » The Wyoming Territory is established.
  • November 3 » John Willis Menard (R-Louisiana) was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.

Day of death March 20, 1921

• The temperature on March 20, 1921 was between 1.2 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (28%). 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
  • September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
  • October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 » George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)