Family tree Van Dijk » Karel Wichhart (1896-1968)

Day of marriage July 14, 1920

• The temperature on July 14, 1920 was between 8.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
  • May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
  • May 9 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
  • May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
  • November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
  • November 21 » Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".

Day of death October 5, 1968

• The temperature on October 5, 1968 was between 10.6 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • 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.
  • February 17 » In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
  • April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
  • August 2 » An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
  • October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
  • December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)