Family tree Griffioen Jellema Friese Adel » Bontje Sytzes Postma (1885-1965)

Day of marriage October 1, 1908

• The temperature on October 1, 1908 was between 10.4 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
  • June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.

Day of death March 30, 1965

• The temperature on March 30, 1965 was between -0.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • January 9 » The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
  • April 29 » Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
  • 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 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
  • September 20 » Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
  • December 4 » Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Aleksandr Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Nella Larsen, American nurse and author (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1966 » Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1966 » Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)