Kramer Family Tree » Mårten Stefanus Lundgren (1884-1973)

Day of marriage October 18, 1908

• The temperature on October 18, 1908 was between 5.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

Day of death October 5, 1973

• The temperature on October 5, 1973 was between 6.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 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.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • February 22 » Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
  • April 1 » Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
  • October 8 » Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
  • October 8 » Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
  • December 20 » The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

Day of burial October 15, 1973

• The temperature on October 15, 1973 was between 6.7 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
  • April 4 » The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
  • June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
  • August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
  • November 14 » In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
  • December 28 » The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by Pres. Richard Nixon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)