Family tree Menting » Adriana Hoogervorst (1886-1961)

Day of marriage April 21, 1910

• The temperature on April 21, 1910 was between 7.2 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Day of death September 6, 1961

• The temperature on September 6, 1961 was between 11.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
  • May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
  • May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
  • May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
  • May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
  • August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1904)
• 1959 » Edmund Gwenn, English actor (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (b. 1927)
• 1962 » Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)