Family tree Weening » Olfert van Dijk (1921-1996)
Personal data Olfert van Dijk
- He was born on March 27, 1921 in Doezum, gem. Grootegast (Gr).Source 1
- He died on January 10, 1996 in -, he was 74 years old.Source 2
- He is buried in Groningen (Gr).
- A child of Iene van Dijk and Jantiena Sikkens
- This information was last updated on November 1, 2024.
Household of Olfert van Dijk
He is married to Wilhelmina de Haan.
They got married
Child(ren):
- Jacob van Dijk 1960-1965
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Historical events
Birthday March 27, 1921
- The temperature on March 27, 1921 was between 3.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (52%). 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
- June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
- July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
- September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
- October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
- December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
Day of death January 10, 1996
- The temperature on January 10, 1996 was between 3.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
- January 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- September 4 » War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
- November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
- November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- December 22 » Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.
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