Genealogy Markus » Maarten Albertus Dijksman (1905-1969)

Day of marriage May 13, 1931

• The temperature on May 13, 1931 was between 11.1 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death April 10, 1969

• The temperature on April 10, 1969 was between 3.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • March 16 » A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
  • April 7 » The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
  • October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
  • October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
  • December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
  • December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1965 » Lloyd Casner, American race car driver, founded Casner Motor Racing Division (b. 1928)
• 1966 » Evelyn Waugh, English soldier, novelist, journalist and critic (b. 1903)
• 1968 » Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian lieutenant and politician (b. 1899)
• 1969 » Harley Earl, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1975 » Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)