FutureHistory » Josephus "Jozef" (Josephus "Jozef") van Landeghem (± 1837-1915)

Day of death October 17, 1915

• The temperature on October 17, 1915 was between 4.6 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Source: Wikipedia

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