Family tree Kueter » Petrus Hendrikus Antonius ARIES (1908-1966)

Day of marriage March 6, 1940

• The temperature on March 6, 1940 was between -1.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • May 10 » World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
  • June 10 » World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
  • June 24 » World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No11 Independent Company.
  • July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
  • August 31 » Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
  • September 12 » Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

Day of death March 30, 1966

• The temperature on March 30, 1966 was between -0.1 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 16.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
  • February 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
  • March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
  • July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
  • July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
  • October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1966 » Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1966 » Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Frank Thorpe, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist (b. 1894)