1001 stambomen » Cornelis Leonardus Antonius Kuijs (1885-1976)

Day of marriage August 7, 1929

• The temperature on August 7, 1929 was between 14.2 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). 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 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 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 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
  • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
  • May 1 » The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

Day of death July 1, 1976

• The temperature on July 1, 1976 was between 15.3 °C and 28.3 °C and averaged 21.8 °C. There was 15.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
  • April 13 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
  • June 25 » Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
  • September 21 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer, and politician (b. 1901)
• 1971 » William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1974 » Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Kurt Student, German general and pilot (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (b. 1921)
• 1983 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1895)