Family tree Van Balsvoort » Amy Simpson (1923-1959)

Personal data Amy Simpson 


Household of Amy Simpson

She is married to Martinus van Balsfoort.

They got married on December 15, 1942 at Holyhead(Wales), she was 19 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday April 6, 1923

  • The temperature on April 6, 1923 was between -0.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
    • February 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
    • September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
    • September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
    • September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
    • December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

Day of death April 18, 1959

  • The temperature on April 18, 1959 was between 6.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
    • February 28 » Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
    • May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
    • July 1 » Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
    • October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
    • October 30 » Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
    • November 20 » The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
  • 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
  • 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
  • 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
  • 1963 » Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)
  • 1964 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)

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