Family tree Schmidt » Martinus Cornelis Broekmeijer (1869-1930)

Day of marriage June 12, 1919

• The temperature on June 12, 1919 was between 10.6 °C and 31.3 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
  • September 28 » Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Day of death January 6, 1930

• The temperature on January 6, 1930 was between 2.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (39%). 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 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 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
  • January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
  • January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
  • March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
  • March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
  • September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
• 1922 » Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Vladimir de Pachmann, Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » André Bessette, Canadian saint (b. 1845)