Family tree Van Rijn » Theodorus "Dirk" van Diepen (1902-1972)

Day of marriage June 25, 1930

• The temperature on June 25, 1930 was between 9.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
  • March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
  • May 7 » The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
  • August 7 » The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
  • August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
  • December 2 » Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,296,000,000 in 2019) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

Day of death February 17, 1972

• The temperature on February 17, 1972 was between 3.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.
  • April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
  • September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
  • September 4 » Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
  • September 4 » The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. As of 2018, it is the longest running game show on American television.
  • December 14 » Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1972 » Friday Hassler, American race car driver (b. 1935)
• 1977 » Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)