Family tree Klavers » Tonnis Smit (1897-1962)

Day of marriage June 4, 1927

• The temperature on June 4, 1927 was between 4.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
  • August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

Day of death November 4, 1962

• The temperature on November 4, 1962 was between 8.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • February 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
  • February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
  • July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
  • December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1956 » Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1897)
• 1959 » Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1896)
• 1968 » Horace Gould, English race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter and soldier (b. 1892)