Family tree Te Loo » Antonia Hendrika van der Meij (1886-1954)

Day of marriage April 3, 1908

• The temperature on April 3, 1908 was between 6.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

Day of death February 7, 1954

• The temperature on February 7, 1954 was between -9.5 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
  • February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
  • June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
  • August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
  • December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1874)
• 1959 » Daniel François Malan, South African minister and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874)
• 1959 » Guitar Slim, American singer and guitarist (b. 1926)
• 1959 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1960 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (b. 1902)