Family tree Van Weeghel » Henrika Geertruida Egberta Barendsen (1898-1962)

Day of marriage May 18, 1922

• The temperature on May 18, 1922 was between 10.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • April 3 » Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • July 1 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
  • September 9 » The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
  • November 4 » In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • November 24 » Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
  • December 6 » One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.

Day of death June 20, 1962

• The temperature on June 20, 1962 was between 10.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
  • September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  • October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
  • October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
  • October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
  • November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)