Family tree Joosten Geurts » Jacobus Johannes "Kuëb" van Deursen (1886-1965)

Day of marriage February 23, 1914

• The temperature on February 23, 1914 was between 1.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Day of death March 15, 1965

• The temperature on March 15, 1965 was between 8.4 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • March 23 » NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
  • May 12 » The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
  • June 9 » The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
  • August 19 » Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
  • September 9 » The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
  • October 28 » Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)