Family tree Pasman-Kuit » Henricus Antonius Berende (1873-1962)

Day of marriage May 4, 1903

• The temperature on May 4, 1903 was between 9.4 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.

Day of death April 14, 1962

• The temperature on April 14, 1962 was between 3.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
  • March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
  • June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
  • June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
  • September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and scholar (b. 1860)
• 1963 » Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian monk and historian (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
• 1964 » Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1876)
• 1968 » Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (b. 1900)