Family tree Van der Waal » assina ZEEVEN (1893-1975)

Day of marriage December 16, 1914

• The temperature on December 16, 1914 was between 5.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Day of death July 30, 1975

• The temperature on July 30, 1975 was between 12.8 °C and 28.6 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
  • March 25 » Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
  • April 25 » As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
  • April 29 » Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
  • June 5 » The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
  • October 16 » Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (b. 1874)
• 1971 » Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (b. 1906)
• 1975 » James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921)
• 1977 » Emory Holloway, American scholar, author, and educator (b. 1885)
• 1983 » Howard Dietz, American songwriter and publicist (b. 1896)