Parenteel van Christiaan Glismeijer » Geertje Livestro (1897-1973)

Day of marriage September 26, 1919

• The temperature on September 26, 1919 was between 11.1 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
  • February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
  • June 15 » John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
  • October 17 » RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Day of death April 30, 1973

• The temperature on April 30, 1973 was between -1.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
  • March 24 » Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
  • June 3 » A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
  • June 9 » In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
  • November 16 » Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
  • December 1 » Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.

Day of burial May 4, 1973

• The temperature on May 4, 1973 was between 8.7 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
  • March 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
  • May 8 » A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
  • June 9 » In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
  • August 9 » Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
  • October 20 » "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (b. 1934)
• 1970 » Jacques Presser, Dutch historian, writer and poet (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (b. 1934)
• 1973 » Václav Renč, Czech poet and playwright (b. 1911)
• 1974 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist and politician, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1898)