Genealogy Pot en Smit » KLAAS BAKKER (1887-1976)

Day of marriage May 5, 1910

• The temperature on May 5, 1910 was between 2.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • 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 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

Day of death March 6, 1976

• The temperature on March 6, 1976 was between -3.8 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (82%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
  • February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
  • April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
  • April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
  • April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
  • October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)
• 1976 » Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer player and manager (b. 1933)
• 1981 » George Geary, English cricketer and coach (b. 1893)