Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Jacobus Johannes PRETORIUS (1889-1952)

Christening day May 4, 1890

• The temperature on May 4, 1890 was about 11.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
  • August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
  • November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
  • December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
  • December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

Day of death July 12, 1952

• The temperature on July 12, 1952 was between 11.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
  • February 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  • February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
  • May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
  • May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
  • July 21 » The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1949 » Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (b. 1860)
• 1950 » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865)
• 1956 » John Hayes, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1868)