Family tree Kruyshoop » Geertje Kruijshoop (1888-1965)

Day of marriage June 4, 1910

• The temperature on June 4, 1910 was between 10.6 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.

Day of death December 12, 1965

• The temperature on December 12, 1965 was between 2.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
  • March 30 » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
  • July 30 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
  • August 4 » The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
  • November 2 » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
  • December 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1964 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1964 » William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group (b. 1894)
• 1966 » Karl Ruberl, Austrian-American swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1970 » Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)