FutureHistory » Albert Riské (1887-1918)

Day of marriage August 4, 1909

• The temperature on August 4, 1909 was between 10.9 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

Day of death April 19, 1918

• The temperature on April 19, 1918 was between -1.7 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • May 2 » General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
  • June 26 » World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
  • July 6 » The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
  • July 15 » World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
  • November 1 » Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
  • November 14 » Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)