Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Agnes Josephine Mignolet (1897-1960)

Day of marriage March 13, 1920

• The temperature on March 13, 1920 was between -1.2 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
  • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • April 23 » The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
  • September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
  • October 14 » Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.

Day of death March 6, 1960

• The temperature on March 6, 1960 was between -0.1 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • July 12 » Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
  • July 21 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
  • August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician (b. 1884)
• 1961 » George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
• 1964 » Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
• 1965 » Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1967 » John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
• 1967 » Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)