Family tree Kaper » Hendrik Klaas Geessienus de Vries (1914-1970)

Day of marriage August 20, 1942

• The temperature on August 20, 1942 was between 11.3 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 18.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • April 17 » French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
  • September 12 » World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Japanese troops.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
  • October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.
  • November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
  • December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

Day of death July 9, 1970

• The temperature on July 9, 1970 was between 14.4 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 16.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
  • April 24 » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
  • April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
  • October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
  • November 25 » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
  • December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (b. 1893)
• 1970 » Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Karl Ast, Estonian author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1972 » Robert Weede, American opera singer (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)