Genealogy Jongepier » Jacobus Willem Lefèbre (1901-1966)

Day of marriage May 25, 1926

• The temperature on May 25, 1926 was between 2.0 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
  • June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
  • August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death March 22, 1966

• The temperature on March 22, 1966 was between 2.2 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • January 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
  • July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
  • July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
  • July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
  • August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
  • December 8 » The Greek ship SSHeraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 » José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 » John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
• 1971 » Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)
• 1974 » Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)