Family tree Weening » Aaltje Johannes Brouwer (1854-1929)

Day of marriage May 12, 1904

• The temperature on May 12, 1904 was between -1.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

Day of death May 6, 1929

• The temperature on May 6, 1929 was between 9.9 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)