Emons family tree » Maria Johanna "Marie" Groffen (1910-1960)

Day of marriage August 30, 1939

• The temperature on August 30, 1939 was between 12.2 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
  • September 3 » World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
  • September 9 » Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
  • October 14 » World War II: The German submarineU-47 sinks the British battleship HMSRoyal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
  • December 2 » New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
  • December 18 » World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.

Day of death June 20, 1960

• The temperature on June 20, 1960 was between 9.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
  • January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
  • May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
  • October 12 » Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
  • November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
  • December 15 » Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.

Day of burial June 23, 1960

• The temperature on June 23, 1960 was between 11.7 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
  • April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
  • September 14 » Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
  • November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
  • December 3 » The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
  • December 17 » Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)