Family tree Kaper » Sake Jan Meijer (1947-1962)

Day of death June 9, 1962

• The temperature on June 9, 1962 was between 3.9 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
  • March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
  • August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
  • September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
  • November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1959 » Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1960 » Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Jacques Villon, French painter (b.1875)
• 1964 » Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)