Family tree Westmaas-Hilferink-Kramer-Geertman-de Wit-Negen-van Leeuwen-Appel » Hendrikus Albertus Hilferink (1885-1968)

Day of marriage June 10, 1909

• The temperature on June 10, 1909 was between 6.4 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Day of death August 12, 1968

• The temperature on August 12, 1968 was between 11.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
  • November 5 » Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
  • November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
  • November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
  • December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
  • December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)