Family tree Deuling » Ingetje van Dijk (1876-1940)

Day of marriage March 9, 1904

• The temperature on March 9, 1904 was between 4.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • 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 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
  • 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.

Day of death July 12, 1940

• The temperature on July 12, 1940 was between 11.4 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
  • June 3 » Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
  • June 23 » Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
  • September 27 » World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
  • October 16 » Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 1935 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)