Family tree Schmidt » Fokko Reinier Notebos (1888-1936)

Day of marriage July 4, 1917

• The temperature on July 4, 1917 was between 10.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
  • October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Day of death May 20, 1936

• The temperature on May 20, 1936 was between 8.4 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
  • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
• 1931 » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (b. 1831)
• 1940 » Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1942 » Hector Guimard, French Architect (b. 1867)
• 1946 » Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1947 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)