Family tree Klavers » Wiebe de Jong (1887-1976)

Day of marriage January 27, 1916

• The temperature on January 27, 1916 was between 2.7 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.

Day of death June 17, 1976

• The temperature on June 17, 1976 was between 9.0 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
  • January 5 » The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
  • January 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
  • February 24 » The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
  • July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
  • August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1889)
• 1975 » James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1979 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Richard O'Connor, Indian-English general (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (b. 1889)