Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Laurens van Everdingen (1861-1928)

Christening day May 30, 1869

• The temperature on May 30, 1869 was about 13.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
  • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
  • July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
  • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

Day of marriage May 2, 1918

• The temperature on May 2, 1918 was between 5.0 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
  • February 21 » The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • May 16 » The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
  • September 29 » World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica.
  • November 9 » Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
  • November 23 » Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Day of death March 29, 1928

• The temperature on March 29, 1928 was between -0.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish lieutenant and explorer (b. 1883)
• 1912 » Robert Falcon Scott, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852)
• 1934 » Otto Hermann Kahn, German-American banker and philanthropist (b. 1867)
• 1937 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Alexander Obolensky, Russian-English rugby player and soldier (b. 1916)