Family tree Van Dijk » Petronella de Ru (1885-1957)

Day of marriage November 15, 1912

• The temperature on November 15, 1912 was between 4.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Day of death March 25, 1957

• The temperature on March 25, 1957 was between 3.2 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
  • March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
  • May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
  • August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
  • September 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
  • October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Lou Moore, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1956 » Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1958 » Tom Brown, American trombonist (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1885)