Family tree De Kunder » Anna Elisabeth Weijers (1873-1962)

Day of marriage February 12, 1912

• The temperature on February 12, 1912 was between 0.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death April 22, 1962

• The temperature on April 22, 1962 was between 6.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or 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 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.
  • January 26 » Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400km).
  • March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11​⁄₂ day constitutional crisis.
  • May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
  • June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
  • July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
  • August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1946 » Lionel Atwill, English-American actor (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895)
• 1951 » Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870)
• 1956 » Walt Faulkner, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (b. 1911)