Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Antonie Haak (1895-1926)

Day of marriage November 14, 1917

• The temperature on November 14, 1917 was between 2.6 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
  • November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Day of death October 7, 1926

• The temperature on October 7, 1926 was between 10.0 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
  • May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
  • May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
  • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
  • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)