Descendants Bree » Jannetje BREE (1869-1960)

Christening day September 5, 1869

• The temperature on September 5, 1869 was about 18.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  • May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
  • August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
  • October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.

Day of marriage June 24, 1892

• The temperature on June 24, 1892 was about 12.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
  • May 28 » In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
  • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
  • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

Day of death May 12, 1960

• The temperature on May 12, 1960 was between 10.9 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
  • July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
  • July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • August 6 » Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  • August 15 » Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
• 1957 » Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1957 » Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (b. 1875)