Family tree Jonker » Anna Jakobs Sikkema (1837-1927)

Day of marriage June 5, 1862

• The temperature on June 5, 1862 was about 15.3 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
  • March 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
  • July 4 » Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
  • July 15 » The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped to reverse Rebel fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
  • September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.

Day of death November 5, 1927

• The temperature on November 5, 1927 was between 7.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
  • November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1928 » Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
• 1933 » Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)