Family tree Zwiggelaar » Albertje Meijer (1893-1967)

Day of marriage October 3, 1912

• The temperature on October 3, 1912 was between 0.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (56%). 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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Day of death November 16, 1967

• The temperature on November 16, 1967 was between 1.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
  • March 12 » Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
  • April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
  • August 25 » George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
  • September 4 » Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
  • December 21 » Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.

Day of burial November 20, 1967

• The temperature on November 20, 1967 was between -1.4 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
  • March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
  • April 21 » A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
  • May 10 » The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • June 5 » The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
  • October 9 » A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Clark Gable, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1961 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1972 » Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher, author, and educator (b. 1915)