Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Barend Kieft (1895-1961)

Day of marriage January 3, 1919

• The temperature on January 3, 1919 was between 3.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first engagements of the Irish War of Independence takes place.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • March 21 » The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
  • May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
  • July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
  • October 2 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him incapacitated for several weeks.

Day of death March 12, 1961

• The temperature on March 12, 1961 was between 5.8 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
  • January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
  • January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
  • March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
  • March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
  • May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)