The temperature on October 23, 1882 was about 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
March 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
March 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
July 11 » The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
October 16 » The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
December 16 » Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.
Day of death January 18, 1957
The temperature on January 18, 1957 was between -6.4 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
April 6 » Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
June 21 » Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Eldert Grootendorst, "Family tree Grootendorst", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-familie-grootendorst/I509380.php : accessed May 28, 2024), "Gerrit Jacobsz. Baak (1882-1957)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.