Genealogy Witte » Johanna Antonia de Zeeuw (1893-1975)

Christening day November 23, 2006

• The temperature on November 23, 2006 was between 7.8 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
  • May 18 » The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
  • May 21 » The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
  • September 19 » The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
  • October 28 » A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
  • December 18 » The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.

Day of marriage January 17, 1917

• The temperature on January 17, 1917 was between -0.3 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
  • 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.
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
  • July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.

Day of death May 18, 1975

• The temperature on May 18, 1975 was between 9.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
  • March 6 » Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
  • March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
  • July 15 » Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
  • September 8 » Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
  • September 16 » Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.

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• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption: