Family tree De Duffelt » Willemina "1884 " van Elburg (1884-1954)

Day of marriage April 6, 1921

• The temperature on April 6, 1921 was between 5.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.

Day of death May 17, 1954

• The temperature on May 17, 1954 was between 7.9 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
  • April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
  • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
  • November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (b. 1864)
• 1947 » George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)