Family tree De Kunder » Maatje Maria de Kunder (1893-1953)

Day of marriage August 26, 1915

• The temperature on August 26, 1915 was between 8.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Day of death September 17, 1953

• The temperature on September 17, 1953 was between 11.7 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
  • June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
  • August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
  • August 12 » The 7.2 M_s  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
  • September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Folke Bernadotte, Swedish soldier and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• 1953 » David Munson, American runner (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Hans Feige, German general (Wehrmacht) (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Adnan Menderes, Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)