FutureHistory » Maria "Marie" (Maria "Marie") Riské (1900-1931)

Day of marriage October 18, 1929

• The temperature on October 18, 1929 was between 8.2 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
  • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Day of death March 8, 1931

• The temperature on March 8, 1931 was between -6.7 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (60%). 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
  • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
  • September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
  • October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
  • December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)