Gezinsreconstructies Steenwijk » Andries van der Meer (1884-1964)

Day of marriage May 1, 1915

• The temperature on May 1, 1915 was between 4.9 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

Day of death June 13, 1964

• The temperature on June 13, 1964 was between 15.1 °C and 31.5 °C and averaged 23.1 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
  • February 17 » In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
  • June 2 » The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.
  • September 13 » Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
  • October 1 » The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
  • December 1 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
• 1965 » David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1965 » Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
• 1969 » Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)