Brabantse Stambomen » Hendrika van de Meerendonk (1875-1961)

Day of marriage February 1, 1911

• The temperature on February 1, 1911 was between -8.0 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.

Day of death May 30, 1961

• The temperature on May 30, 1961 was between 4.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
  • May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
  • May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
  • July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
  • September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
  • November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.

Day of burial June 2, 1961

• The temperature on June 2, 1961 was between 11.3 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
  • January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
  • March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
  • April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
  • May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
  • November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Piero Carini, Italian race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1960 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 » Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1898)