Family tree Klavers » Geertruida Breedveld (1881-1960)

Day of marriage March 17, 1905

• The temperature on March 17, 1905 was between 4.2 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Day of death February 4, 1960

• The temperature on February 4, 1960 was between 4.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
  • May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
  • May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
  • September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
  • November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
  • November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
• 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)