Kramer Family Tree » Aukje Thomas DeJong (1895-1974)

Day of marriage February 22, 1918

• The temperature on February 22, 1918 was between 2.7 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
  • January 26 » Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
  • April 8 » World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
  • August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
  • September 29 » The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.

Day of death February 7, 1974

• The average temperature on February 7, 1974 was 2.9 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
  • April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
  • April 27 » Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
  • September 17 » Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
  • November 24 » Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Day of burial February 9, 1974

• The temperature on February 9, 1974 was between 7.8 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
  • July 20 » Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
  • July 23 » The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
  • August 4 » A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
  • August 7 » Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417m) in the air.
  • November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (b. 1902)
• 1964 » Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek captain and politician, 133rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1972 » Walter Lang, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (b. 1923)