Family tree Klavers » Hendrik Jan Stegink (1885-1960)

Day of marriage March 5, 1915

• The temperature on March 5, 1915 was between 6.8 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Day of death June 7, 1960

• The temperature on June 7, 1960 was between 8.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
  • April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
  • May 3 » The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
  • May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
  • August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
• 1956 » John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)
• 1963 » ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)