Family tree Steinmeier/De Vries » Johannis van Boven (1840-1909)

Day of marriage May 12, 1865

• The temperature on May 12, 1865 was about 11.2 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Day of death March 22, 1909

• The temperature on March 22, 1909 was between 5.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)