More like a forest than a tree! » Paula Maria Henrica Jeannetta GUDDE (1904-1970)

Day of marriage April 25, 1928

• The temperature on April 25, 1928 was between 7.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death June 6, 1970

• The temperature on June 6, 1970 was between 12.1 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • June 21 » Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
  • August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
  • August 26 » A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
  • September 12 » Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
  • October 17 » FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
  • November 4 » Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

Day of burial June 10, 1970

• The temperature on June 10, 1970 was between 15.0 °C and 29.4 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
  • May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
  • June 21 » Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
  • August 7 » California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
  • November 18 » U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
  • November 21 » Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » William Baziotes, American painter and academic (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Randolph Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
• 1968 » Kâzim Özalp, Turkish general and politician, 3rd Turkish Minister of National Defence (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1976 » J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)