Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Reijer Schouten (1863-1938)

Christening day October 11, 1863

• The temperature on October 11, 1863 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 29 » The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
  • February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
  • April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
  • July 30 » American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
  • September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • September 19 » American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.

Day of marriage September 14, 1894

• The temperature on September 14, 1894 was about 12.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
  • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

Day of death December 6, 1938

• The temperature on December 6, 1938 was between 1.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1956 » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)