Family tree Hamstra - Spanjer » Peter van Dijken (1906-1975)

Personal data Peter van Dijken 


Household of Peter van Dijken

He is married to Grace Hamstra.

They got married on April 25, 1928, he was 22 years old.

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  • The temperature on March 11, 1906 was between 0.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
    • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
    • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
    • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
    • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
    • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  • The temperature on June 15, 1975 was between 11.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 22.7 mm of rain during 9.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
    • April 9 » The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
    • April 29 » Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
    • June 4 » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
    • June 29 » Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
    • August 15 » Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
    • November 28 » East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.


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A.R. Hamstra, "Family tree Hamstra - Spanjer", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-hamstra-spanjer/R167.php : accessed September 29, 2026), "Peter van Dijken (1906-1975)".