Parentele of Jan Thonis » Hendrikje Hendriksen (1880-1972)

Day of marriage January 26, 1921

• The temperature on January 26, 1921 was between 6.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.

Day of death March 5, 1972

• The temperature on March 5, 1972 was between 0.5 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
  • March 30 » Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
  • May 6 » Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
  • December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1973 » Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 1974 » Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1974 » John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)