Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Adriana Kremers (1891-1966)

Day of marriage April 30, 1915

• The temperature on April 30, 1915 was between 4.6 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Day of death August 5, 1966

• The temperature on August 5, 1966 was between 11.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
  • August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
  • September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
  • September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)