Family tree Van Rijn » Theodorus Koedooder (1895-1954)

Day of marriage January 23, 1931

• The temperature on January 23, 1931 was between 5.7 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
  • March 11 » Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
  • March 19 » Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
  • October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
  • November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death February 2, 1954

• The temperature on February 2, 1954 was between -12.9 °C and -4.3 °C and averaged -9.3 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
  • March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
  • April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
  • September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

Day of burial February 5, 1954

• The temperature on February 5, 1954 was between -11.5 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
  • February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
  • February 18 » The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
  • March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
  • November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
  • November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1956 » Charley Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
• 1956 » Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
• 1956 » Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)