Family tree Mijjer » Benjamin "Ben" van der Mersch (1885-1961)

Day of marriage March 15, 1911

• The temperature on March 15, 1911 was between -1.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • August 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Day of death October 23, 1961

• The temperature on October 23, 1961 was between 8.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
  • March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
  • 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.
  • September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  • September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
  • December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
• 1964 » Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (b. 1886)