Family tree Van Dijk » Johanna Henrica "Drika" Kanters (1885-1965)

Day of marriage May 22, 1916

• The temperature on May 22, 1916 was between 11.2 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • March 16 » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
  • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

Day of death May 8, 1965

• The temperature on May 8, 1965 was between 10.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 12.4 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
  • May 27 » Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
  • June 18 » Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
  • July 16 » South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
  • August 18 » Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
  • December 4 » The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
• 1960 » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1972 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)