Family tree Koning » Jakob Drenth (1886-1973)

Day of marriage April 11, 1912

• The temperature on April 11, 1912 was between 0.4 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
  • October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Day of death July 6, 1973

• The temperature on July 6, 1973 was between 16.6 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
  • May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
  • September 26 » Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
  • November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
  • November 16 » U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
  • November 22 » The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (b. 1907)