Genealogy N.P. Mantel » Tjerk de Geus (1905-1981)

Day of marriage April 29, 1931

• The temperature on April 29, 1931 was between 2.2 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • March 19 » Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
  • April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

Day of death May 27, 1981

• The temperature on May 27, 1981 was between 5.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 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 Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
  • February 23 » In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
  • May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
  • July 29 » After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
  • August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
  • December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1984 » Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1987 » John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)