Family tree Frieling-Van Halteren » Bernardus Johannes van Haaften (< 1918-1919)

Day of death December 1, 1919

• The temperature on December 1, 1919 was between 0.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • July 23 » Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
  • September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
  • December 3 » After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
  • December 23 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)