Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Maria "Maria" van de Water (1880-1962)

Day of marriage October 19, 1911

• The temperature on October 19, 1911 was between -0.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

Day of death March 28, 1962

• The temperature on March 28, 1962 was between 1.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400km).
  • June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
  • July 10 » Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
  • July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
  • September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.

Day of burial April 2, 1962

• The temperature on April 2, 1962 was between 3.1 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • July 10 » Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
  • September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
  • October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
  • October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
  • December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
  • December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1962 » Hugo Wast, Argentinian author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b. 1876)
• 1965 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1965 » Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885)
• 1969 » Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)