Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Johanna Cornelia Poot (1891-1921)

Day of marriage June 16, 1915

• The temperature on June 16, 1915 was between 5.9 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
  • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Day of death July 11, 1921

• The temperature on July 11, 1921 was between 12.2 °C and 30.4 °C and averaged 21.4 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1831)
• 1905 » Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
• 1908 » Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)
• 1909 » Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1929 » Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)
• 1937 » George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1898)