Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Pietertje Hekman (1894-1929)

Day of marriage June 30, 1916

• The temperature on June 30, 1916 was between 9.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 24 » In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
  • April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
  • July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Day of death February 25, 1929

• The temperature on February 25, 1929 was between -5.0 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
  • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
  • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
  • 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

• 1914 » John Tenniel, English illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1915 » Charles Edwin Bessey, American botanist, author, and academic (b. 1845)
• 1920 » Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, French archaeologist and engineer (b. 1844)
• 1928 » William O'Brien, Irish journalist and politician (b. 1852)
• 1934 » Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, American botanist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1934 » John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)