The temperature on October 10, 1914 was between 5.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
Day of marriage May 27, 1937
The temperature on May 27, 1937 was between 9.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Hans Weening, "Family tree Weening", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-weening/I122383.php : accessed October 20, 2026), "Elizabeth Hamstra (1914-)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.