Family tree Van Leeuwen » Cornelia Geertruda Pompen (1889-1972)

Day of marriage October 23, 1919

• The temperature on October 23, 1919 was between -2.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first engagements of the Irish War of Independence takes place.
  • February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
  • February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
  • March 23 » In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.

Day of death November 16, 1972

• The temperature on November 16, 1972 was between 0.6 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
  • April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
  • April 25 » Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
  • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
  • December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
  • December 23 » A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1972 » Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher, author, and educator (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Jack Foster, English cricketer (b. 1905)