Family tree Broere » Bertha Johanna de Lange (1893-1927)

Day of marriage September 5, 1917

• The temperature on September 5, 1917 was between 9.6 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
  • February 5 » The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
  • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.

Day of death November 9, 1927

• The temperature on November 9, 1927 was between 2.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
  • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1918 » Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
• 1924 » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)