Genealogy Meeldijk » Egbertus Gerardus HESKAMP (1888-1970)

Day of marriage July 11, 1917

• The temperature on July 11, 1917 was between 10.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
  • May 18 » World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
  • May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
  • July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

Day of death November 21, 1970

• The temperature on November 21, 1970 was between 1.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
  • May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
  • July 3 » Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
  • September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
  • October 12 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
  • November 25 » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » C. M. Eddy, Jr., American author (b. 1896)
• 1970 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Newsy Lalonde, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (b. 1890)
• 1974 » John B. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1897)