Stambeam Jan en Richtje van der Meer » Aagje Gerrits van der Meer (1845-1924)

Day of marriage August 19, 1865

• The temperature on August 19, 1865 was about 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
  • June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
  • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

Day of death February 10, 1924

• The temperature on February 10, 1924 was between -1.2 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
  • October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
  • October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » John William Waterhouse, English soldier and painter (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1920 » Henry Strangways, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (b. 1832)
• 1923 » Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1928 » José Sánchez del Río, Mexican martyr and saint (b. 1913)