Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Elisabeth Maria "Elise" Wilmink (1886-1947)

Day of marriage July 10, 1931

• The temperature on July 10, 1931 was between 12.7 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
  • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
  • August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
  • September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death October 28, 1947

• The temperature on October 28, 1947 was between 0.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • July 4 » The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Day of burial October 31, 1947

• The temperature on October 31, 1947 was between 1.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
  • October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)