Family tree Meiling » Hendrikus van de Brug (1878-1970)

Day of marriage October 19, 1916

• The temperature on October 19, 1916 was between 0.3 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
  • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
  • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
  • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

Day of death February 14, 1970

• The temperature on February 14, 1970 was between -6.1 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • March 4 » French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
  • April 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
  • April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
  • April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
  • June 4 » Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • October 10 » Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
• 1969 » Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Julian Huxley, English biologist and eugenicist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887)
• 1975 » P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (b. 1881)