Family tree Docter » Gerritje van Veen (1870-1933)

Day of marriage December 6, 1893

• The temperature on December 6, 1893 was about 2.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
  • August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
  • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
  • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

Day of death February 22, 1933

• The temperature on February 22, 1933 was between -8.1 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
  • February 28 » Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
  • March 4 » The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
  • March 20 » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
  • April 7 » Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
  • May 12 » The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)
• 1939 » Antonio Machado, Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Stefan Zweig, Austrian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Christoph Probst, German activist (b. 1919)
• 1943 » Hans Scholl, German activist (b. 1918)
• 1943 » Sophie Scholl, German activist (b. 1921)