Family tree De Koning » Petronella Maria de Koning (1892-1978)

Day of marriage April 19, 1917

• The temperature on April 19, 1917 was between -1.6 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
  • October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
  • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.

Day of death August 4, 1978

• The temperature on August 4, 1978 was between 14.4 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  • July 1 » The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
  • July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
  • August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
  • November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (b. 1923)
• 1976 » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1933)