Family tree Leemborg » Wessel van Delden (1892-1960)

Day of marriage May 17, 1913

• The temperature on May 17, 1913 was between 7.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
  • March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
  • June 23 » Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
  • October 31 » The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.
  • November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

Day of death February 1, 1960

• The average temperature on February 1, 1960 was 1.1 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
  • April 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
  • April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
  • July 1 » Independence of Somalia.
  • September 5 » Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
  • November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.

Day of burial February 5, 1960

• The temperature on February 5, 1960 was between 0.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
  • March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
  • May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
  • June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • October 12 » Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
• 1958 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike