Family tree Menting » Jacobus Cornelis Driessen (1892-1969)

Day of marriage June 10, 1920

• The temperature on June 10, 1920 was between 4.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 13 » The Negro National League is formed.
  • March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
  • April 25 » At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
  • June 4 » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
  • August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
  • August 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.

Day of death June 18, 1969

• The temperature on June 18, 1969 was between 10.9 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
  • February 4 » Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
  • March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
  • September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
  • November 14 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
  • November 19 » Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Beat Fehr, Swiss race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1967 » Geki, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1971 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1971 » Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)