Genealogy Jan Abrahams Dijkstra » Margaretha Alida "Gré" van Leeuwenstijn (1912-2011)

Day of marriage May 24, 1939

• The temperature on May 24, 1939 was between 8.0 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
  • May 21 » The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • June 1 » First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
  • September 1 » General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
  • September 28 » World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
  • October 6 » World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.

Day of death November 23, 2011

• The temperature on November 23, 2011 was between 4.8 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 people.
  • February 19 » The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
  • March 12 » A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
  • March 15 » Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
  • May 16 » STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
  • May 25 » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2010 » Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b. 1922)
• 2010 » Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 » José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)