Family tree Beekman » Frederikus Tolner (1896-1961)

Day of marriage August 21, 1920

• The temperature on August 21, 1920 was between 9.9 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
  • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
  • August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
  • August 19 » The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.
  • November 16 » Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.

Day of death June 9, 1961

• The temperature on June 9, 1961 was between 8.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 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 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.
  • March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
  • July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
  • September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
  • September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
  • October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
  • November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1960 » Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Jacques Villon, French painter (b.1875)
• 1964 » Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)