Eijsermans family tree » Maria Cornelia van Rijen (± 1876-1962)

Day of death March 13, 1962

• The temperature on March 13, 1962 was between -3.7 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (31%). 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 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.
  • February 7 » The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
  • April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
  • June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
  • September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
  • October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
  • October 13 » The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane, with winds above 150mph. 46 people die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor († 1882)
• 1965 » Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)