Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Karel van Hulst (1897-1931)

Day of marriage July 19, 1923

• The temperature on July 19, 1923 was between 10.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
  • February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
  • April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
  • October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death July 19, 1931

• The temperature on July 19, 1931 was between 12.1 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 12.2 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
  • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
  • October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » John Indermaur, British lawyer (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1844)
• 1933 » Kaarle Krohn, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet and author (b. 1850)
• 1943 » Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1947 » U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (b. 1898)