Family tree familie Van Bart en familie Muurling » Bartha Hendrika Schaap (1876-1968)

Day of marriage January 28, 1915

• The temperature on January 28, 1915 was between -6.9 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Day of death April 24, 1968

• The temperature on April 24, 1968 was between 3.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 17 » In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
  • April 10 » The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
  • April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
  • September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
  • December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
  • December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1970 » Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)