Family tree Klavers » Willem Veenhoven (1926-< 2024)

Birthday June 6, 1926

• The temperature on June 6, 1926 was between 10.8 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
  • May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

Source: Wikipedia

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