Family tree Engel-Van Mierlo » Adrianus Jose Maria Josephina Catharina (Riet) van Dun (1923-1924)

Day of death April 5, 1924

• The temperature on April 5, 1924 was between -0.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (87%). 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
  • July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1923 » George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)
• 1924 » Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1928 » Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890)