Family tree Bus » Adriaan C. Bon (1901-1975)

Day of marriage September 2, 1937

• The temperature on September 2, 1937 was between 14.4 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (33%). 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
  • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
  • November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
  • December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Day of death July 25, 1975

• The temperature on July 25, 1975 was between 10.1 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • April 13 » An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
  • July 27 » Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.
  • August 15 » Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
  • August 20 » Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
  • September 8 » Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
  • November 12 » The Comoros joins the United Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)
• 1973 » Amy Jacques Garvey, Jamaican-American journalist and activist (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Louis St. Laurent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
• 1980 » Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
• 1981 » Rosa A. González, Puerto Rican nurse, author, feminist, and activist (b. 1889)