Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Geertruida van Meerveld (1893-1975)

Day of marriage September 24, 1915

• The temperature on September 24, 1915 was between 14.0 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death September 21, 1975

• The temperature on September 21, 1975 was between 6.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
  • February 9 » The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
  • March 22 » A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
  • April 25 » As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
  • August 23 » The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
  • October 30 » Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Jacqueline Susann, American author and actress (b. 1918)
• 1974 » Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Turkish painter and poet (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (b. 1932)