Jan ZUURDEEG

Jan ZUURDEEG

Male 1909 - 1980  (71 years)

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1909
1923
1937
1952
1966
1980


 
 
 




   Date  Event(s)
1909 
  • 1909: UK - Pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people
  • 1909: UK - 800 million postcards sold in England
  • 1909: Japan - Prince Ito is Assassinated
  • 1909: UK - Plastic Is Invented
  • 1909: Arctic - Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole
  • 1909: USA - William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • 1909: UK - Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
  • 1909: NL - Prinses Juliana geboren.
  • 1909: NL - Opening N.O.L.S. spoorlijn Delfzijl-Zuidbroek.
1910 
1911 
1912 
  • 1912: North Sea - The Sinking of the Titanic: 1,515 people lose their lives.
  • 1912: UK - Parachutes Invented
  • 1912: UK - Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered but later revealed as a fraud
  • 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
  • 1912: UK - Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • 1912: UK - The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • 1912: USA - Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy
  • 1912: NL - De ondergang van de Titanic.
  • 1912: NL - De eerste officiĆ«le Elfstedentocht wordt gewonnen door Coen de Koning.
1913 
  • 1913: USA - Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as Formica
  • 1913: Detroit, MI, USA - First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory
  • 1913: New York, NY, USA - The Armory Show, an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory. It arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art
  • 1913: USA - Personal Income Tax introduced
  • 1913: Washington, DC, USA - Woodrow Wilson president 1913-1921.
  • 1913: UK - The crossword puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913: USA - The Merck Chemical Company patented what is now known as ecstasy.
  • 1913: USA - Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
  • 1913: USA - Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
  • 1913: NL - Gasselternijveen vierde havenstad van Nederland na Amsterdam,Rotterdam en Groningen.
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
10 1918 
  • 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
  • 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
  • 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
  • 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
  • 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
  • 1918: NL - NL - De Spaanse griep veroorzaakt wereldwijd meer dan 20 miljoen doden.
  • 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
11 1919 
12 1920 
13 1921 
14 1922 
15 1923 
16 1924 
17 1925 
18 1926 
19 1927 
20 1928 
21 1929 
22 1930 
23 1931 
24 1932 
25 1933 
26 1934 
27 1935 
  • 1935: USA - First successful three-color roll film available to amateur photographers as Kodachrome, for slides, this year, and as Kodacolor (for prints) in 1942.
  • 1935: UK - First Kit Kat sold
  • 1935: USA - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
  • 1935: Germany - Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws issued
  • 1935: UK - John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
  • 1935: USA - Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invent nylon
  • 1935: USA - The first canned beer made.
  • 1935: NL - Behalve het bekende Noorder Dierenpark dat op 1 mei wordt geopend, wordt tevens de oudheidskamer in gebruik genomen
  • 1935: NL - Noorder Sanatorium wordt gebouwd in Zuidlaren
28 1936 
29 1937 
30 1938 
31 1939 
32 1940 
33 1941 
34 1942 
35 1943 
36 1944 
  • 1944: France - D-Day landings
  • 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
  • 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
  • 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
37 1945 
38 1946 
39 1947 
40 1948 
  • 1948: USA - Life magazine makes painter Jackson Pollock an overnight celebrity by devoting a three-page spread with color photographs to him and his paintings under the headline, Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?; Abstract Expressionism becomes a subject of widespread popular ridicule.
  • 1948: Berlin, Germany - Berlin Airlift
  • 1948: UK - Big Bang Theory Formulated
  • 1948: India - Gandhi Assassinated
  • 1948: South Africa - Policy of Apartheid Begun
  • 1948: Israel - State of Israel Founded
  • 1948: USA - The FrisbeeĀ® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
  • 1948: USA - VelcroĀ® invented by George de Mestral.
  • 1948: USA - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox
  • 1948: NL - Tweede politionele actie in Nederlands-IndiĆ«.
  • 1948: NL - Koningin Wilhelmina treedt af. Zij wordt opgevolgd door haar dochter Juliana.
41 1949 
42 1950 
43 1951 
44 1952 
45 1953 
46 1954 
47 1955 
48 1956 
49 1957 
50 1958 
51 1959 
52 1960 
53 1961 
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55 1963 
56 1964 
57 1965 
58 1966 
59 1967 
60 1968 
61 1969 
62 1970 
  • 1970: Vietnam - American Soldiers Accused of Murdering Entire Town of Vietnamese Civilians
  • 1970: Egypt - Aswan High Dam Completed
  • 1970: UK - The Beatles Break Up
  • 1970: USA - Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
  • 1970: UK - Protesting Students shot at Kent State University
  • 1970: UK - The daisy-wheel printer invented.
  • 1970: USA - The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
  • 1970: USA - Intel builds the first microprocessor, 'a computer on a chip'
  • 1970: NL - Emmen: Het nieuwe raadhuis "over de Hondsrugweg" wordt in gebruik genomen.
63 1971 
64 1972 
65 1973 
66 1974 
67 1975 
68 1976 
69 1977 
70 1978 
71 1979 
72 1980