Family tree Wim Westphaal » Angelina Seraphina Wiemers (± 1841-1907)

Day of death March 5, 1907

• The temperature on March 5, 1907 was between -1.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
  • December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)