April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
Day of death April 29, 1965
The temperature on April 29, 1965 was between 6.4 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
March 25 » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
June 3 » The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
November 2 » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
November 8 » The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998.
December 31 » Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
Day of burial May 3, 1965
The temperature on May 3, 1965 was between 10.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 10.7 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 21 » Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
March 19 » The wreck of the SSGeorgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
June 18 » Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
June 19 » Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
July 25 » Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
August 15 » The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Freek van Loon, "Family tree Van Loon", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/van-loon-stamboom/I874.php : accessed February 15, 2026), "Cornelis Adrianus Jeroen van der Meer (1897-1965)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.