Family tree Van Rijn » Jacob "Jacob" Floris (1874-1953)

Day of marriage April 27, 1911

• The temperature on April 27, 1911 was between 5.0 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
  • April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
  • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
  • December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

Day of death May 11, 1953

• The temperature on May 11, 1953 was between -1.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
  • November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
  • November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)