Family tree Klavers » Jacob Pol (1893-1973)

Day of marriage April 8, 1915

• The temperature on April 8, 1915 was between 2.8 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death August 18, 1973

• The temperature on August 18, 1973 was between 17.0 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 23 » United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
  • May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
  • August 2 » A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
  • September 28 » The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
  • December 15 » John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)