Family tree Seekles, vd Burgt, vd Ende, Janssen en Kwartiestaat van Petra van de Burgt » Anna Maria van Zeijl (1881-1943)

Day of marriage September 23, 1904

• The temperature on September 23, 1904 was between 5.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (56%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

Day of death April 4, 1943

• The temperature on April 4, 1943 was between 3.0 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
  • March 3 » World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
  • June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
  • September 16 » World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
  • October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
  • December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1932 » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (b. 1842)
• 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (b. 1878)
• 1951 » George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
• 1953 » Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)