Genealogy Harssema » Gerdinus de ROO (1903-1970)

Day of marriage May 18, 1933

• The temperature on May 18, 1933 was between 2.4 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (77%). 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 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 Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 10 » The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.
  • March 13 » Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
  • May 8 » Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
  • August 1 » Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
  • September 21 » Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
  • November 7 » Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

Day of death August 12, 1970

• The temperature on August 12, 1970 was between 5.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • January 22 » The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
  • March 5 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
  • April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
  • April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
  • April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
  • November 25 » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)