From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
Day of death June 20, 1957
The temperature on June 20, 1957 was between 12.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
November 3 » Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: A.P. de Bruine, "Genealogy De Bruine Duiveland", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie-de-bruine-duiveland/I19606.php : accessed May 5, 2024), "Wouter Cornelis Oxener (1876-1957)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.