Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Klijsina Maria de Vries (1909-1963)

Day of marriage September 8, 1955

• The temperature on September 8, 1955 was between 11.0 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
  • April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
  • May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
  • June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
  • October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.

Day of death April 11, 1963

• The temperature on April 11, 1963 was between 6.2 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • April 16 » Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
  • May 8 » South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
  • July 1 » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
  • November 18 » The first push-button telephone goes into service.
  • December 7 » Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and educator (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Rosa Grünberg, Swedish actress (b. 1878)
• 1962 » George Poage, American hurdler and educator (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Donald Sangster, Jamaican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Thomas Farrell, American general (b. 1891)