Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Leentje Jacoba Noordzij (1869-1947)

Day of marriage February 1, 1894

• The temperature on February 1, 1894 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
  • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
  • September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Day of death May 19, 1947

• The temperature on May 19, 1947 was between 7.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
  • March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
  • 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 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)
• 1950 » Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)