Family tree De Kunder » Maria Catharina Huijs (1880-1951)

Day of marriage January 22, 1931

• The temperature on January 22, 1931 was between 2.7 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
  • May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
  • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
  • October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.

Day of death January 10, 1951

• The temperature on January 10, 1951 was between -1.0 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
  • June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
  • July 4 » Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
  • November 2 » Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
  • November 2 » Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.
  • December 24 » Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.

Day of burial January 13, 1951

• The temperature on January 13, 1951 was between 2.2 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • April 29 » Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
  • June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
  • July 26 » Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • September 1 » The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
  • October 20 » The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
  • November 1 » Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)