Family tree Van Houtum » Gerhardina Wilhelmina Elizabeth "Dina" van Wessem (1882-1961)

Day of marriage March 30, 1909

• The temperature on March 30, 1909 was between 7.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Day of death May 2, 1961

• The temperature on May 2, 1961 was between 10.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
  • May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
  • May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
  • May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
  • July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
  • December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

Day of burial May 5, 1961

• The temperature on May 5, 1961 was between 11.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
  • June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
  • August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
  • September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
  • September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)