Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Peter Lammers (1893-1968)

Day of marriage March 10, 1920

• The temperature on March 10, 1920 was between 1.4 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 13 » The Negro National League is formed.
  • February 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
  • May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • July 11 » In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
  • August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
  • September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

Day of death August 9, 1968

• The temperature on August 9, 1968 was between 15.3 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
  • January 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
  • January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
  • April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
  • July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
  • November 26 » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)