Family tree Van Dijk » Josephus Joannes Maria van Dijk (1893-1968)

Day of marriage February 3, 1921

• The temperature on February 3, 1921 was between -1.7 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
  • June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

Day of death November 5, 1968

• The temperature on November 5, 1968 was between 2.4 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 17 » In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
  • May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
  • July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
  • July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
  • October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
  • October 14 » The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1902)
• 1964 » Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (b. 1916)
• 1964 » Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1972 » Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)