Family tree Theo Bijl » Cornelis Jacob van der Steen (1902-1962)

Day of marriage September 12, 1924

• The temperature on September 12, 1924 was between 13.0 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
  • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
  • December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

Day of death April 14, 1962

• The temperature on April 14, 1962 was between 3.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • July 13 » In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
  • September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
  • September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
  • October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
  • October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
  • December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and scholar (b. 1860)
• 1963 » Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian monk and historian (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
• 1964 » Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1876)
• 1968 » Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (b. 1900)