Family tree Eveline Kusters » Adriana Maria van Westrenen (1879-1943)

Day of marriage September 2, 1908

• The temperature on September 2, 1908 was between 6.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
  • November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

Day of death November 26, 1943

• The temperature on November 26, 1943 was between 0.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • April 8 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
  • April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
  • April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
  • June 3 » In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
  • September 3 » World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMSNelson off Malta.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Şükrü Naili Gökberk, Turkish general (b. 1876)
• 1938 » Flora Call Disney, American mother of Walt Disney (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
• 1943 » Edward O'Hare, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1943 » Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (b. 1865)
• 1950 » Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (b. 1867)