Database Van Broekhoven » Anna Maria van Leeuwen (1884-1968)

Day of marriage July 14, 1909

• The temperature on July 14, 1909 was between 11.5 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Day of death June 15, 1968

• The temperature on June 15, 1968 was between 13.2 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
  • April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
  • June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
  • October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
  • November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
  • December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1962 » Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1925)
• 1971 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)