Family tree Schepers uit Stein (Lb) » Joannes Schepers (1902-1934)

Christening day August 22, 1902

• The temperature on August 22, 1902 was between 4.4 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (92%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Day of marriage May 1, 1924

• The temperature on May 1, 1924 was between 6.3 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

Day of death October 12, 1934

• The temperature on October 12, 1934 was between 10.9 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
  • April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
  • May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  • July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
  • October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
  • December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Day of burial October 16, 1934

• The temperature on October 16, 1934 was between 3.7 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The 8.0 M_w  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
  • April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
  • July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
  • September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
  • November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
  • December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)