Family tree Van Knippenberg » Hendrik Joseph van Knippenberg (1882-1959)

Day of marriage November 15, 1913

• The temperature on November 15, 1913 was between 6.3 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
  • February 20 » King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
  • February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
  • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
  • October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

Day of death March 10, 1959

• The temperature on March 10, 1959 was between 1.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
  • March 31 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
  • April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
  • August 14 » Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
  • October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
  • November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)