Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Pieter Johannes Keur (1920-1975)

Day of marriage September 11, 1946

• The temperature on September 11, 1946 was between 11.2 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 10 » The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
  • January 19 » General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
  • March 24 » A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
  • June 27 » In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
  • November 19 » Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
  • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

Day of death February 5, 1975

• The temperature on February 5, 1975 was between -3.3 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 2 » Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
  • April 13 » An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
  • August 27 » The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
  • September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
  • November 3 » Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, are murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
  • November 7 » In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1970 » Rudy York, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1913)
• 1971 » Lew "Sneaky Pete" Robinson, drag racer (b. 1933)
• 1972 » Marianne Moore, American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1926)
• 1977 » Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)