Stambomen Quist » Cathalina Johanna Quist (1896-1953)

Day of marriage October 23, 1918

• The temperature on October 23, 1918 was between 3.3 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
  • January 25 » The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • February 1 » Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
  • March 21 » World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
  • August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
  • August 31 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.

Day of death April 28, 1953

• The temperature on April 28, 1953 was between 7.0 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
  • August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
  • December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
  • December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Hermann Fegelein, German general (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)