Family tree Van Knippenberg » Elisabeth van Knippenberg (1891-1968)

Day of marriage June 19, 1908

• The temperature on June 19, 1908 was between 11.3 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
  • June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

Day of death December 4, 1968

• The temperature on December 4, 1968 was between 0.1 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
  • April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
  • April 4 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
  • April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
  • July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
  • November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.

Day of burial December 7, 1968

• The temperature on December 7, 1968 was between -1.6 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
  • July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
  • August 22 » Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
  • November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
  • December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1969 » Fred Hampton, American Black Panthers activist (b. 1948)
• 1971 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center (b. 1904)
• 1975 » Hannah Arendt, German-American historian, theorist, and academic (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Tommy Bolin, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1951)