Family tree Kommer » Hendrik Regterschot (1892-1938)

Day of marriage May 4, 1918

• The temperature on May 4, 1918 was between 9.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • March 31 » Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
  • June 1 » World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
  • October 12 » A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
  • November 14 » Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
  • November 21 » A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.

Day of death June 18, 1938

• The temperature on June 18, 1938 was between 8.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
  • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
• 1945 » Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1945 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)