Family tree Boerstra » Wilhelmina Mathilde Elisabeth Burchartz (1891-1970)

Day of marriage October 22, 1915

• The temperature on October 22, 1915 was between -1.4 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

Day of death February 10, 1970

• The temperature on February 10, 1970 was between 0.1 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
  • May 31 » The 7.9 M_w  Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
  • August 7 » California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
  • November 4 » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
  • November 9 » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
  • December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1960 » Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1966 » Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (b. 1884)
• 1975 » Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910)