In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Day of marriage January 27, 1917
The temperature on January 27, 1917 was between -7.9 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 11 » The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
Day of death September 11, 1961
The temperature on September 11, 1961 was between 10.1 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
May 30 » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
September 18 » CONCACAF is established as the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Nienke Oudbier, "Descendants van de Vlag1", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-oudbier/I352.php : accessed January 19, 2026), "Wilhelmina Bernardina van Dongen (1892-1961)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.