Eijsermans family tree » Kornelis van der Meulen (1886-1970)

Day of marriage May 29, 1913

• The temperature on May 29, 1913 was between 12.8 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
  • February 19 » Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
  • February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
  • March 26 » First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
  • May 29 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
  • October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

Day of death July 15, 1970

• The temperature on July 15, 1970 was between 11.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 9.3 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
  • September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
  • October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
  • November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
  • November 14 » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
  • December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.

Day of burial July 18, 1970

• The temperature on July 18, 1970 was between 6.4 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
  • July 3 » The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
  • August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
  • August 29 » Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
  • November 12 » The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (b. 1944)
• 1976 » Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1977 » Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (b. 1933)