Family tree Menting » Antonius Peeters (1877-1956)

Day of marriage November 29, 1905

• The temperature on November 29, 1905 was between -0.9 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

Day of death February 22, 1956

• The temperature on February 22, 1956 was between -15.2 °C and -5.6 °C and averaged -9.8 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • January 3 » A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
  • April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
  • October 21 » The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
  • October 26 » Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
  • November 12 » Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
  • December 28 » Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist (b. 1869)
• 1945 » Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Abul Kalam Azad, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education (b. 1888)
• 1960 » Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter and critic (b. 1905)
• 1961 » Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)