Genealogy N.P. Mantel » Jacob Matthijs Arens (1898-1978)

Day of marriage October 7, 1926

• The temperature on October 7, 1926 was between 10.0 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
  • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death March 29, 1978

• The temperature on March 29, 1978 was between 4.6 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily 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 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.
  • February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
  • March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • November 14 » France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
  • 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.
  • December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
  • December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1981 » Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
• 1982 » Carl Orff, German composer and educator (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (b. 1897)
• 1982 » Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission (b. 1901)