Parenteel van Hendrik Franken van Dam » Berendina Meiling (1885-1936)

Day of marriage March 2, 1906

• The temperature on March 2, 1906 was between 0.2 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)

Day of death November 17, 1936

• The temperature on November 17, 1936 was between 4.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 20.0 mm of rain during 11.7 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1932 » Charles W. Chesnutt, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)
• 1936 » Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (b. 1861)
• 1937 » Jack Worrall, Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b. 1864)
• 1940 » Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (b. 1879)