Family tree Oosting » Willem Fidder (1901-1968)

Day of marriage May 2, 1925

• The temperature on May 2, 1925 was between 3.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
  • February 2 » Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
  • February 28 » The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
  • April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
  • May 25 » Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
  • July 18 » Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

Day of death September 20, 1968

• The temperature on September 20, 1968 was between 9.4 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
  • February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
  • March 2 » Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
  • April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
  • May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
  • June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1971 » James Westerfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1975 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)