Family tree Klavers » Lukas Bergsma (1870-1950)

Day of marriage October 5, 1905

• The temperature on October 5, 1905 was between 7.3 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.

Day of death March 22, 1950

• The temperature on March 22, 1950 was between 5.0 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • May 13 » The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
  • May 29 » The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • August 24 » Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
  • September 4 » Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
  • October 19 » Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
  • November 8 » Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1952 » D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)