Rotterdam - Notable Historical Events
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Rotterdam - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1340-06-07 |
Rotterdam Netherlands founded |
1699-09-22 |
People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter |
1740-08-13 |
Hunger strike in Rotterdam |
1816-05-10 |
British steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor |
1823-06-16 |
King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp |
1844-01-01 |
1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week) |
1847-05-31 |
Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens |
1855-05-03 |
Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens |
1855-07-20 |
1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands |
1855-08-03 |
Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens |
1864-02-15 |
Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans |
1874-10-01 |
Rotterdam opens drinking water pipes |
1878-04-02 |
1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper |
1888-04-01 |
Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam |
1902-07-03 |
Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam |
1905-09-18 |
Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam |
1905-11-04 |
Dock strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam |
1908-07-19 |
Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam |
1908-10-01 |
1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague) |
1920-02-12 |
-Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike |
1920-09-01 |
New town hall of Rotterdam opens |
1921-04-14 |
Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route |
1922-01-09 |
Rotterdam metal strike ends |
1922-10-07 |
Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria |
1928-05-01 |
Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms |
1935-07-06 |
Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens |
1937-03-27 |
Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam |
1938-11-29 |
Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany |
1940-05-14 |
Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany |
1942-02-14 |
Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens |
1942-07-19 |
German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague |
1942-08-07 |
Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway |
1943-03-31 |
US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 |
1944-10-24 |
Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners |
1944-11-10 |
German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany |
1945-10-05 |
Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam |
1946-04-16 |
NSB mayor of Rotterdam Neth, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail |
1946-05-13 |
Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam |
1946-07-02 |
Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam |
1950-08-15 |
Rotterdam harbor strike begins |
1950-08-22 |
Rotterdam dock strike ends |
1953-05-15 |
Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam |
1956-10-01 |
Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens |
1958-09-13 |
Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam |
1960-02-27 |
Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens |
1960-06-27 |
Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens |
1962-06-04 |
Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US |
1963-05-15 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
1965-02-01 |
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam |
1968-02-09 |
Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
1968-05-23 |
AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam |
1970-09-15 |
Rotterdam dock strikes end |
1972-05-31 |
Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam |
1974-10-18 |
Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam |
1977-02-28 |
Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends |
1981-07-01 |
Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam |
1982-05-26 |
Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam |
1982-06-12 |
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam |
1985-05-15 |
Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
1987-08-25 |
Madonna sings in Rotterdam |
1991-04-02 |
Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing |
1991-05-15 |
Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
1994-09-15 |
"Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam |
2009-10-23 |
The United Nations "Rotterdam Rules" convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature. |
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Rotterdam - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1619-11-03 |
Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes) |
1753-07-06 |
John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized |
1756-11-04 |
Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner |
1852-02-02 |
Teunis Stoel, actor/director (Small Theater, Rotterdam) |
1869-01-19 |
Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations) |
1873-04-29 |
Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage) |
1879-04-11 |
Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo) |
1884-07-06 |
Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam) |
1886-12-05 |
Pieter J Old, lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52) |
1889-02-18 |
Sybold van Ravesteyn, architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht) |
1902-06-26 |
Antonia Brico, Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia) |
1904-04-24 |
Willem De Kooning, Rotterdam Netherland, artist (North Atlantic Light) |
1905-08-29 |
Martinus A Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70) |
1906-04-17 |
M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily) |
1933-02-08 |
Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo) |
1936-09-28 |
Robert Wolders, Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo) |
1970-11-15 |
Karin van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989) |
1970-11-15 |
Mirjam van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989) |
1973-06-06 |
Brynja Valdís Gísladóttir, Reykjavik-Rotterdam |
1973-12-16 |
Kristie Boogert, Rotterdam Neth, tennis star (1996 Paris) |
1974-03-18 |
Petra Kamstra, Rotterdam Holland, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles) |
1979-06-06 |
Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir, Reykjavik-Rotterdam |
Rotterdam - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1581-04-03 |
Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies |
1773-09-20 |
Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63 |
1800-04-30 |
John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46 |
1846-06-20 |
Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67 |
1850-01-14 |
Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at 93 |
1938-02-18 |
Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64 |
1939-07-02 |
Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies |
1959-04-13 |
Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38 |
1968-08-12 |
Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81 |
1975-01-23 |
Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94 |
1983-03-28 |
Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77 |
1986-01-07 |
M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79 |
1992-03-18 |
Cornelis B Vaandrager, [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56 |
1992-12-02 |
Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die |
1995-01-22 |
Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37 |
