De bomen van Kreijkes » Gerritdina Steunenberg (1876-1956)

Day of marriage December 27, 1907

• The temperature on December 27, 1907 was between -5.5 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
  • July 29 » Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Day of death March 30, 1956

• The temperature on March 30, 1956 was between 5.0 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • July 30 » A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
  • August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
  • October 17 » The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
  • October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
  • November 4 » Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
  • December 2 » The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Jigme Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1905)
• 1955 » Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1956 » Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English author and poet (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Daniil Andreyev, Russian mystic and poet (b. 1906)
• 1959 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (b. 1894)
• 1959 » Riccardo Zanella, Italian politician (b. 1875)