Marree family tree » Hendrika Van Lunsen (1862-1936)

Day of marriage May 17, 1888

• The temperature on May 17, 1888 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
  • September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

Day of death March 2, 1936

• The temperature on March 2, 1936 was between -0.7 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Hoover Dam is completed.
  • March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
  • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
  • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
  • November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1885)
• 1938 » Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician (b.1867)
• 1944 » Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)