Family tree Jonker » Hendrik Nijborg (1889-1961)

Day of marriage April 29, 1914

• The temperature on April 29, 1914 was between 5.0 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

Day of death August 14, 1961

• The temperature on August 14, 1961 was between 10.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
  • June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
  • June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
  • August 21 » American country music singer Patsy Cline returns to record producer Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's "Crazy", which would become her signature song.
  • September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
  • October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 1965 » Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)