Family tree Onderwater-Sparidaens » johanna maria vermeer (1837-1912)

Day of marriage May 11, 1865

• The temperature on May 11, 1865 was about 12.9 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Day of death January 23, 1912

• The temperature on January 23, 1912 was between 1.0 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)