Family tree Nieuwenhuizen-Van Ginkel en De Kruijf-Grootendorst » 1. Geert Joh.zn Blanken (1870-1945)

Day of marriage February 21, 1920

• The temperature on February 21, 1920 was between 4.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • January 28 » Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
  • March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
  • March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
  • July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
  • July 29 » Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
  • November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Day of death October 4, 1945

• The temperature on October 4, 1945 was between 5.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 17 » World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw.
  • February 8 » World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
  • February 9 » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMSVenturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
  • February 13 » World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
  • February 23 » World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
  • October 12 » World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1943 » Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 » Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)