Family tree Plugboer » Guurtje Schouten (1887-1967)

Day of marriage August 10, 1907

• The temperature on August 10, 1907 was between 12.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.

Day of death November 21, 1967

• The temperature on November 21, 1967 was between -3.6 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
  • January 27 » Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
  • March 18 » The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
  • May 10 » The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • October 2 » Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • December 4 » Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Artur Lemba, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Robert Stroud, American ornithologist and author (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (b. 1905)
• 1967 » C. M. Eddy, Jr., American author (b. 1896)
• 1970 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Newsy Lalonde, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (b. 1887)