Watson-Gladstone Family Tree » Henry Frank WATSON (1880-1951)

Day of marriage July 3, 1901

• The temperature on July 3, 1901 was between 12.0 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.

Day of death August 27, 1951

• The temperature on August 27, 1951 was between 11.2 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
  • March 15 » Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
  • April 5 » Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
  • April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
  • May 3 » London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
  • November 10 » With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)
• 1945 » Hubert Pál Álgyay, Hungarian engineer, designed the Petőfi Bridge (b. 1894)
• 1948 » Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)