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Ancestors (and descendant) of Rijk Herman Jacobus van Ark

Timen van Ark
1821-1902
Jennigjen van Doesburg
1820-1889

Rijk Herman Jacobus van Ark
1904-1975


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Birthday December 11, 1904

  • The temperature on December 11, 1904 was between -0.3 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
    • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
    • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
    • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
    • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
    • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.

Day of death January 18, 1975

  • The temperature on January 18, 1975 was between 1.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
    • March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
    • June 24 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
    • July 31 » The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
    • October 16 » Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.
    • October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
    • November 3 » Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, are murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1900 » Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director († 1993)
  • 1904 » Marge, American cartoonist († 1993)
  • 1905 » Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor and singer († 1994)
  • 1905 » Robert Henriques, English farmer, author, and broadcaster († 1967)
  • 1908 » Elliott Carter, American composer and academic († 2012)
  • 1908 » Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2015)

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