Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Egbert Nijboer (1879-1955)

Day of marriage January 23, 1909

• The temperature on January 23, 1909 was between -6.3 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -4.4 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

Day of death May 21, 1955

• The temperature on May 21, 1955 was between 1.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
  • May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
  • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  • October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
  • November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1952 » John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1956 » Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877)
• 1957 » Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1964 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Marguerite Bise, French chef (b. 1898)