Family tree Geurts » Johannes "Jo" Romme (1885-1959)

Day of marriage April 30, 1909

• The temperature on April 30, 1909 was between 2.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 19.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

Day of death September 3, 1959

• The temperature on September 3, 1959 was between 9.8 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
  • January 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
  • June 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
  • September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
  • November 2 » Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
  • December 13 » Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.

Day of burial September 7, 1959

• The temperature on September 7, 1959 was between 9.5 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
  • May 4 » The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
  • May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
  • July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
  • September 16 » The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
  • October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
• 1962 » E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1967 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (b. 1893)
• 1969 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (b. 1871)