De bomen van Kreijkes » Fredrikus ten Brinke (1865-1944)

Day of marriage September 20, 1900

• The temperature on September 20, 1900 was about 11.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  • June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
  • July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
  • November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Day of death July 2, 1944

• The temperature on July 2, 1944 was between 14.9 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 20 » World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
  • June 16 » In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
  • August 21 » World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
  • November 4 » World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies.
  • November 27 » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)
• 1955 » Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)