Family tree van Spijk en vele anderen! » Alke Horlings (1884-1978)

Day of marriage May 6, 1914

• The temperature on May 6, 1914 was between 9.5 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  • September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

Day of death March 12, 1978

• The temperature on March 12, 1978 was between 7.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
  • February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
  • February 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
  • March 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
  • June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
  • July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)