Family tree Pullen » Dirkje "Durkje" Kok (1893-1966)

Day of marriage May 9, 1919

• The temperature on May 9, 1919 was between 8.3 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
  • January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
  • March 21 » The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
  • June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
  • June 15 » John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Day of death October 3, 1966

• The temperature on October 3, 1966 was between 13.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
  • February 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
  • February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
  • March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
  • July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
  • July 6 » Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)