Family tree Kueter » Jacobus SPEEK (1889-1968)

Day of marriage June 15, 1911

• The temperature on June 15, 1911 was between 6.4 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (52%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
  • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Day of death September 30, 1968

• The temperature on September 30, 1968 was between 7.5 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 16.2 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
  • February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
  • April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
  • July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
  • October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
  • October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (b. 1877)
• 1961 » Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (b. 1915)
• 1977 » Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)