Family tree Ham en Dallinga » Evert Toxopeus (1841-1929)

Day of marriage July 31, 1878

• The temperature on July 31, 1878 was about 19.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Day of death May 19, 1929

• The temperature on May 19, 1929 was between 4.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
  • February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
  • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
  • June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (b. 1892)
• 1918 » Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (b. 1885)
• 1935 » T. E. Lawrence, British colonel and archaeologist (b. 1888)
• 1936 » Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)