Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Wilhelmina van den Top (1920-1974)

Day of death October 26, 1974

• The temperature on October 26, 1974 was between 5.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • January 6 » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
  • April 1 » The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
  • July 15 » In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
  • July 27 » Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
  • August 7 » Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417m) in the air.
  • December 13 » Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

Day of burial October 31, 1974

• The temperature on October 31, 1974 was between -3.2 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
  • May 28 » Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
  • June 29 » Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Peron is terminally ill.
  • October 5 » Bombs planted by the PIRA kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
  • November 16 » The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
  • November 22 » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Semyon Budyonny, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (b. 1914)
• 1976 » Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Alexander Gerschenkron, Ukrainian-American historian, critic, and academic (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (b. 1917)