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www.dekrantvantoen.nl, Leeuwarder Courant, "overlijdensadvertentie Adam Jans van der Meer," 13-5-1957, online archives (www.dekrantvantoen.nl : accessed 16 dec 2016), p. 10.
The temperature on November 7, 1921 was between 1.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
Day of death May 10, 1957
The temperature on May 10, 1957 was between 7.6 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
Day of burial May 14, 1957
The temperature on May 14, 1957 was between 6.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
April 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
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