Family tree Hegeman » Bernardus de Hosson (1877-1954)

Day of marriage August 16, 1906

• The temperature on August 16, 1906 was between 11.9 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Day of death November 20, 1954

• The temperature on November 20, 1954 was between -2.5 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
  • April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
  • July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
  • August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
  • September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
  • October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
• 1952 » Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (b. 1933)
• 1960 » Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (b. 1881)