Family tree Jacobs » Gesien Boelen (1890-1929)

Day of marriage September 7, 1916

• The temperature on September 7, 1916 was between 8.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • April 20 » The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

Day of death June 16, 1929

• The temperature on June 16, 1929 was between 9.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
  • May 1 » The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
• 1930 » Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
• 1939 » Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)