The temperature on July 16, 1861 was about 20.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
January 11 » American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
April 20 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
June 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
December 10 » Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
Day of marriage July 8, 1898
The temperature on July 8, 1898 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Day of death February 14, 1946
The temperature on February 14, 1946 was between -1.0 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
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.
May 9 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
July 5 » Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
August 1 » Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
October 1 » The Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.
December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Arie Pool, "Family tree Pool", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-pool/I2007.php : accessed March 11, 2026), "Gesien Veeninga (1861-1946)".
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.