Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Otto Cornelis Verkerk (1882-1964)

Day of marriage May 20, 1904

• The temperature on May 20, 1904 was between 2.2 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Day of death March 23, 1964

• The temperature on March 23, 1964 was between 5.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
  • April 13 » At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
  • June 28 » Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
  • July 2 » Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
  • August 4 » Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USSMaddox and USSTurner Joy mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • December 11 » Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (b. 1881)
• 1961 » Albert Bloch, American painter and educator (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Jack Russell, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Peter Lorre, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)