Family tree Van Dijk » Henricus Johannes Frijters (1890-1976)

Day of marriage October 9, 1917

• The temperature on October 9, 1917 was between 5.9 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
  • June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
  • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Day of death March 28, 1976

• The temperature on March 28, 1976 was between 4.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
  • January 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
  • January 5 » The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
  • July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
  • September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
  • October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner (b. 1887)
• 1974 » Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Françoise Rosay, French actress (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1907)