Family tree Kraat-Lems » Leendert Andries van Boven (1891-1955)

Day of marriage November 24, 1920

• The temperature on November 24, 1920 was between -3.2 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
  • July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
  • August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
  • August 25 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
  • September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.

Day of death May 22, 1955

• The temperature on May 22, 1955 was between 0.4 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
  • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
  • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
  • August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
  • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)