Database Van Broekhoven » Lucas Andreas Liefjes (1897-1967)

Day of marriage December 7, 1916

• The temperature on December 7, 1916 was between -0.5 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
  • April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
  • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
  • November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Day of death February 19, 1967

• The temperature on February 19, 1967 was between 5.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
  • March 14 » The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
  • July 23 » Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
  • November 19 » The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
  • November 30 » South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the Pap smear (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1970 » Ralph Edward Flanders, (b. 1890) US Senator from Vermont.
• 1972 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
• 1973 » Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)