The temperature on January 17, 1908 was between 4.0 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
Day of death August 5, 1969
The temperature on August 5, 1969 was between 19.0 °C and 29.1 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
April 1 » The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
September 5 » My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Helma Bovenschen-van Gelderen, "Genealogy Bovenschen, Looijenga, Van Gelderen en Van Donk", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie-bovenschen/I17419.php : accessed May 28, 2024), "Otto van Gelderen (1908-1969)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.