Family tree Van Dijk » Marius Johannes Maria Verkaar (1917-1997)

Christening day October 1, 1917

• The temperature on October 1, 1917 was between 3.3 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • February 3 » First World War: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
  • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
  • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
  • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.

Day of death July 14, 1997

• The temperature on July 14, 1997 was between 13.3 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
  • April 18 » The Red River flood begins and soon overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
  • May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
  • July 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
  • August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
  • August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Léo Ferré, Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (b. 1916)
• 1998 » Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (b. 1911)
• 2000 » William Roscoe Estep, American historian and academic (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Guy de Lussigny, French painter (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 41st President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)