Family tree Klavers » Gerrit Boers (1884-1957)

Day of marriage July 30, 1914

• The temperature on July 30, 1914 was between 12.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 20.0 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
  • June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Day of death June 29, 1957

• The temperature on June 29, 1957 was between 15.7 °C and 31.0 °C and averaged 24.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
  • September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
  • October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
  • October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)
• 1955 » Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian (b. 1883)
• 1964 » Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (b. 1906)