Family tree Kueter » Elisabeth Rose HERD (1896-1967)

Day of marriage October 24, 1916

• The temperature on October 24, 1916 was between 4.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

Day of death December 25, 1967

• The temperature on December 25, 1967 was between 5.4 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
  • January 14 » The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
  • January 18 » Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
  • August 8 » The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
  • November 17 » Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)