Family tree Mink » Roelfke Feenstra (1893-1983)

Day of marriage June 6, 1914

• The temperature on June 6, 1914 was between 3.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
  • May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • August 26 » World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
  • August 28 » World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

Day of death December 23, 1983

• The temperature on December 23, 1983 was between 5.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
  • July 11 » A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
  • September 25 » Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
  • October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
  • November 7 » United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
  • December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892)
• 1979 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Colin Middleton, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)