Family tree M. Tolsma » Louise Elisabeth Sickinghe (1885-1945)

Day of marriage May 17, 1911

• The temperature on May 17, 1911 was between 12.1 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
  • January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  • September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.

Day of death September 9, 1945

• The temperature on September 9, 1945 was between 10.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
  • February 23 » World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
  • April 21 » World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
  • April 29 » World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
  • July 16 » Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
  • August 6 » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888)
• 1943 » Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (b. 1872)
• 1950 » Victor Hémery, French racing driver (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (b. 1872)