Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Stijntje Aartsen (1880-1968)

Day of marriage May 14, 1909

• The temperature on May 14, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Day of death March 20, 1968

• The temperature on March 20, 1968 was between 4.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
  • February 12 » Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
  • February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
  • July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
  • December 10 » Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
  • December 11 » The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.

Day of burial March 23, 1968

• The temperature on March 23, 1968 was between 4.6 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
  • June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
  • September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
  • October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
  • December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Brendan Behan, Irish republican and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1965 » Daniel Frank, American long jumper (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Johnny Morrison, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1968 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)