Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Margaretha Adelheid - Maria Adelheid Schmitz (1862-1929)

Christening day March 25, 1862

• The temperature on March 25, 1862 was about 12.0 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 9 » American Civil War: USSMonitor and CSSVirginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • September 2 » American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
  • September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
  • September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
  • December 17 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Day of marriage January 7, 1908

• The temperature on January 7, 1908 was between 5.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
  • May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

Day of death January 20, 1929

• The temperature on January 20, 1929 was between -2.7 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
  • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
  • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
• 1924 » Henry "Ivo" Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
• 1936 » George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)