Family tree Herlé-Heemskerk » Cornelia "Corrie" Jansen (1882-1936)

Day of marriage May 17, 1906

• The temperature on May 17, 1906 was between 6.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
  • 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 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.

Day of death August 10, 1936

• The temperature on August 10, 1936 was between 13.7 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • June 28 » The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • October 5 » The Jarrow March sets off for London.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician (b. 1854)
• 1929 » Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1878)
• 1932 » Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog (b. 1918)
• 1933 » Alf Morgans, Welsh-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1850)
• 1945 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (b. 1882)
• 1948 » Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1873)