Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Nicolaas Jacobus PRETORIUS (1887-1965)

Christening day February 12, 1888

• The temperature on February 12, 1888 was about 4.8 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
  • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
  • October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

Day of death March 4, 1965

• The temperature on March 4, 1965 was between -9.0 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
  • April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
  • April 21 » The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
  • August 1 » Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
  • August 19 » Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
  • September 30 » In Indonesia, a coup by the 30 September Movement is crushed, leading to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1972 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer, and politician, 8th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (b. 1903)