Families de Vries-Bouma-Krikke » Hendrikje Krikke (1869-1942)

Day of marriage May 23, 1895

• The temperature on May 23, 1895 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Day of death October 3, 1942

• The temperature on October 3, 1942 was between 8.6 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 1 » World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
  • February 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
  • February 20 » Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
  • March 22 » World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
  • December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)