Family tree De Kunder » Rolina Berdina Matser (1885-1973)

Day of marriage September 12, 1912

• The temperature on September 12, 1912 was between 8.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Day of death January 13, 1973

• The temperature on January 13, 1973 was between -4.0 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • March 25 » Ireland gets a new newspaper called Sunday World.
  • June 9 » In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
  • August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
  • November 7 » The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
  • November 17 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
  • December 1 » Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.

Day of burial January 17, 1973

• The temperature on January 17, 1973 was between -3.5 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
  • March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
  • May 5 » Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59​⁄₅, an as-yet unbeaten record.
  • July 13 » Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
  • October 8 » Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
  • November 24 » A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
• 1974 » Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1977 » Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)