Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Maria Wilhelmina Tromp (1869-1947)

Day of marriage October 19, 1893

• The temperature on October 19, 1893 was about 5.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
  • January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
  • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
  • August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
  • August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

Day of death October 28, 1947

• The temperature on October 28, 1947 was between 0.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
  • April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
  • June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
  • October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)