The temperature on August 19, 1913 was between 11.1 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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 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.
March 20 » Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
October 31 » Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.
December 1 » Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
December 1 » The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
Day of marriage April 2, 1937
The temperature on April 2, 1937 was between 3.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
Day of death December 25, 1973
The temperature on December 25, 1973 was between 2.2 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
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.
June 3 » A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
June 20 » Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board.
July 5 » A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
September 18 » The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
September 20 » Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Tijs van den Brink, "Parentele of Geurt Jacobs", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/geurt-jacobs/I4447.php : accessed January 16, 2026), "Gerbrigje Kamphuis (1913-1973)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.