Family tree Jacobs » Geert Sterken (1872-1962)

Day of marriage August 16, 1928

• The temperature on August 16, 1928 was between 11.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death November 13, 1962

• The temperature on November 13, 1962 was between 0.4 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 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 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
  • March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11​⁄₂ day constitutional crisis.
  • July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
  • September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
  • October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
  • November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1955 » Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (b. 1897)
• 1955 » Moshe Pesach, Greek rabbi (b. 1869)
• 1961 » Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (b. 1897)
• 1963 » Margaret Murray, Indian-English anthropologist and author (b. 1863)
• 1969 » Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)