Parentage of Gisbert Jansen Snapper » Rikje Dokter (1908-1976)

Day of marriage May 2, 1930

• The temperature on May 2, 1930 was between 5.6 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • April 22 » The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
  • June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
  • September 6 » Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
  • October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
  • November 11 » Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

Day of death December 27, 1976

• The temperature on December 27, 1976 was between 0.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • March 9 » Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
  • June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
  • July 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
  • July 17 » The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
  • July 20 » The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
  • July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.

Day of burial December 31, 1976

• The temperature on December 31, 1976 was between -4.8 and 2.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • January 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
  • June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
  • July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
  • September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
  • November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
  • December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Amy Vanderbilt, American author (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
• 1978 » Chris Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
• 1978 » Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
• 1979 » Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, 2nd President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)