Family tree Meijers » Jan Donselaar (1895-1953)

Day of marriage September 1, 1921

• The temperature on September 1, 1921 was between 7.1 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
  • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
  • November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.

Day of death November 24, 1953

• The temperature on November 24, 1953 was between -3.8 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
  • April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
  • April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
  • May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
  • July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
• 1954 » Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1959 » Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883)