Family tree Brons » Roelfina Johanna Margrietha Kerstholt (1900-1970)

Day of marriage August 4, 1921

• The temperature on August 4, 1921 was between 10.2 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
  • September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
  • October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
  • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.

Day of death August 8, 1970

• The temperature on August 8, 1970 was between 14.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • January 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
  • April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
  • August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
  • September 12 » Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
  • October 2 » An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
  • November 4 » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1916)
• 1969 » Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1882)
• 1975 » Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)