Family tree Van Dijk » Maria Rosalia Josephina Knegtel (1896-1996)

Day of marriage August 12, 1918

• The temperature on August 12, 1918 was between 11.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • March 21 » World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
  • March 31 » Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
  • July 17 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
  • September 29 » Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
  • November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
  • December 28 » Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

Day of death August 13, 1996

• The temperature on August 13, 1996 was between 16.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
  • May 20 » Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
  • June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
  • July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
  • August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
  • October 2 » Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1995 » Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (b. 1926)
• 1995 » Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1931)
• 1996 » António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Edward Ginzton, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Nino Ferrer, Italian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)