Family tree Van Tongeren » Theodora Bernadina Maria van Tongeren (1918-1921)

Day of death May 18, 1921

• The temperature on May 18, 1921 was between 10.9 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
  • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
  • October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

Source: Wikipedia

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