Family tree Jan Werkman » Jan van Heerde (1889-1949)

Day of marriage May 25, 1917

• The temperature on May 25, 1917 was between 9.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
  • November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

Day of death February 18, 1949

• The temperature on February 18, 1949 was between -1.7 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
  • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
  • August 3 » The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
  • October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
  • December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

Day of burial February 21, 1949

• The temperature on February 21, 1949 was between 5.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
  • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
  • August 22 » The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
  • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
  • December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.
  • December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » David King Udall, American missionary and politician (b. 1851)
• 1942 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
• 1956 » Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)