Lap family tree » Jan de Jonge (1895-1971)

Day of marriage November 5, 1921

• The temperature on November 5, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
  • 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 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

Day of death September 20, 1971

• The temperature on September 20, 1971 was between 4.4 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
  • February 9 » The 6.5–6.7 M_w  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
  • April 1 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
  • August 15 » President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
  • September 29 » Oman joins the Arab League.
  • November 23 » Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1971 » James Westerfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1975 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)