Family tree Konjer » Folchert Harmannus Van Dijken (1896-1980)

Day of marriage December 24, 1919

• The temperature on December 24, 1919 was between 4.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first engagements of the Irish War of Independence takes place.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
  • September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
  • September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Day of death April 24, 1980

• The temperature on April 24, 1980 was between 4.6 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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)
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • March 27 » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
  • April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
  • April 30 » The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
  • June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
  • September 22 » Iraq invades Iran.
  • November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)
• 1983 » Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
• 1984 » Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891)