Family tree Kuurstra en Gordijn » Hermanus Johannes GORDIJN (± 1909-1911)

Day of death April 29, 1911

• The temperature on April 29, 1911 was between 5.7 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)