Family tree Verloop » Alexander (Sander) VERLOOP (1891-1970)

Day of marriage May 24, 1917

• The temperature on May 24, 1917 was between 10.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
  • March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

Day of death October 9, 1970

• The temperature on October 9, 1970 was between 2.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
  • April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
  • April 13 » An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
  • April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
  • July 23 » Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
  • November 25 » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 » Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1972 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)