The temperature on December 28, 1906 was between -7.0 °C and -1.0 °C and averaged -3.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
Day of marriage September 12, 1935
The temperature on September 12, 1935 was between 4.6 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
June 10 » Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
July 16 » The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
Day of death March 25, 1975
The temperature on March 25, 1975 was between 0.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
February 9 » The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
August 11 » East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
November 11 » Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
November 25 » Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Eva Drenth, "Family tree Diverse", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-drenth/I32164.php : accessed February 16, 2026), "Hendrik Oudhof (1906-1975)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.