Dick Nijborg's genealogical file » Jakob Faken (1899-1961)

Day of marriage August 15, 1930

• The temperature on August 15, 1930 was between 10.3 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
  • January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
  • February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
  • March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
  • April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
  • October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.

Day of death November 11, 1961

• The temperature on November 11, 1961 was between 2.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
  • May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
  • August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
  • September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
• 1961 » Behiç Erkin, Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
• 1965 » Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (b. 1900)
• 1972 » Berry Oakley, American bass player (b. 1948)