Kramer Family Tree » Janke Hendriks Vriesema (1891-1974)

Day of marriage May 6, 1916

• The temperature on May 6, 1916 was between 10.5 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • July 15 » In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
  • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

Day of death July 17, 1974

• The temperature on July 17, 1974 was between 9.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 8 » After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
  • February 22 » Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.
  • March 9 » The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
  • March 29 » Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
  • May 1 » The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
  • December 19 » Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
• 1967 » John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)
• 1974 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)