stamboom Mondria » Geertje Jonkman (1849-1936)

Day of death March 4, 1936

• The temperature on March 4, 1936 was between -1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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.
  • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
  • June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
  • July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
  • August 9 » Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » George Foster Peabody, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1944 » Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)