The temperature on February 24, 1869 was about 1.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
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).
April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
Day of death August 3, 1946
The temperature on August 3, 1946 was between 12.8 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 17 » The UN Security Council holds its first session.
February 22 » The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
March 5 » Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
March 9 » Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
April 17 » The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: J.M. Quist, "Stambomen Quist", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stambomen-quist/I3055.php : accessed February 9, 2026), "Barendina van Driel (1869-1946)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.