Family tree Smith » Victor Theodoor Kolmus (1906-1962)

Day of marriage September 21, 1938

• The temperature on September 21, 1938 was between 15.2 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
  • June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
  • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
  • October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

Day of death July 14, 1962

• The temperature on July 14, 1962 was between 8.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
  • March 2 » Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
  • April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
  • October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
  • October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
  • November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1965 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
• 1966 » Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1970 » Preston Foster, American actor (b. 1900)