Family tree Jager-Aalbers » Albert Bos (1854-1924)

Day of marriage September 9, 1874

• The temperature on September 9, 1874 was about 13.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
  • May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
  • July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
  • July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
  • August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
  • November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

Day of death January 5, 1924

• The temperature on January 5, 1924 was between -10.7 °C and -2.5 °C and averaged -6.8 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)