Family tree Klavers » Roelof Kikkert (1897-1979)

Day of marriage May 6, 1922

• The temperature on May 6, 1922 was between 5.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • March 18 » In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
  • April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
  • May 10 » The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
  • August 27 » Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
  • October 28 » Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
  • November 21 » Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.

Day of death January 12, 1979

• The temperature on January 12, 1979 was between 0.5 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • January 30 » A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
  • February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
  • June 18 » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • July 17 » Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
  • October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Roy Franklin Nichols, American historian and academic (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
• 1976 » Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1903)