Family tree Van Britsom en Bax » William Alexander Chandler (1849-1933)

Day of marriage March 16, 1893

• The temperature on March 16, 1893 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
  • January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
  • May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
  • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
  • November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.

Day of death August 30, 1933

• The temperature on August 30, 1933 was between 11.0 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
  • February 3 » Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
  • March 13 » Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
  • May 6 » The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
  • October 10 » A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
  • November 17 » The United States recognizes the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1936 » Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
• 1940 » J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)