Family tree De Duffelt » Gesina Elisabeth "1867 " Tombergs (1867-1904)

Day of marriage February 6, 1896

• The temperature on February 6, 1896 was about 5.1 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Day of death July 31, 1904

• The temperature on July 31, 1904 was between 16.1 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Belgian stained glass painter (b. 1814)
• 1913 » John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. (b. 1850)
• 1914 » Jean Jaurès, French journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1917 » Francis Ledwidge, Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
• 1917 » Hedd Wyn, Welsh language poet (b. 1887)
• 1920 » Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)