Genealogy Rouleaux » Willem Jacob Rouleaux (1904-1979)

Day of marriage March 17, 1930

• The temperature on March 17, 1930 was between 2.6 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
  • March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
  • May 27 » The 1,046 feet (319m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
  • June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
  • July 7 » Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
  • October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.

Day of death June 3, 1979

• The temperature on June 3, 1979 was between 16.6 °C and 29.9 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 17.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
  • November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
  • November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
  • November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
  • November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1904)