Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Friederich Wilhelm Servaes (1863-1928)

Day of marriage October 22, 1896

• The temperature on October 22, 1896 was about 6.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
  • May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
  • August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.

Day of death September 10, 1928

• The temperature on September 10, 1928 was between 11.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1931 » Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1869)
• 1931 » Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (b. 1886)
• 1933 » Baconin Borzacchini, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1933 » Giuseppe Campari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1933 » Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (b. 1899)