Family tree Petit » Susanna Pieternella Hooftman (1882-1953)

Day of marriage January 10, 1908

• The temperature on January 10, 1908 was between -9.8 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (83%). 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
  • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
  • November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

Day of death February 22, 1953

• The temperature on February 22, 1953 was between 6.4 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
  • March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
  • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
  • May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
  • September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Christoph Probst, German activist (b. 1919)
• 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)