Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Jan Kieft (1862-1940)

Christening day April 20, 1862

• The temperature on April 20, 1862 was about 11.1 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
  • March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
  • March 9 » American Civil War: USSMonitor and CSSVirginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
  • June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
  • July 18 » First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
  • December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

Day of marriage March 3, 1886

• The temperature on March 3, 1886 was about -1.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
  • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
  • August 31 » The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Day of death February 26, 1940

• The temperature on February 26, 1940 was between -1.3 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • May 10 » World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
  • May 24 » Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
  • July 2 » Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
  • September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
  • November 5 » World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMSJervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
  • November 12 » World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1936 » February 26 Incident:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)