Family tree Wolberink Hagedoorn » Johannes "Jens" Heppen (1879-1960)

Day of marriage September 2, 1909

• The temperature on September 2, 1909 was between 5.7 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Day of death July 26, 1960

• The temperature on July 26, 1960 was between 11.5 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • January 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
  • February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
  • June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
  • July 12 » Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
  • September 10 » At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

Day of burial July 29, 1960

• The temperature on July 29, 1960 was between 15.7 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
  • June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
  • October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
  • November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
  • December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Eva Perón, Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
• 1953 » Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician, 135th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
• 1960 » Cedric Gibbons, British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)