Pedigree Plomp » Adriaan Baljeu (1865-1948)

Day of marriage May 2, 1894

• The temperature on May 2, 1894 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
  • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
  • September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Day of death July 17, 1948

• The temperature on July 17, 1948 was between 10.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
  • April 21 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
  • May 12 » Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne.
  • May 15 » Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • August 23 » World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
  • September 13 » Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

Day of burial July 20, 1948

• The temperature on July 20, 1948 was between 13.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
  • May 3 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
  • May 14 » Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • May 15 » Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • July 1 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
  • October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (b. 1893)
• 1946 » Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)
• 1950 » Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)