Linders family tree » Antonius van de Kar (1902-1979)

Day of marriage June 15, 1928

• The temperature on June 15, 1928 was between 8.2 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 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.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • 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 January 26, 1979

• The temperature on January 26, 1979 was between -3.7 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 9.5 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄₂-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
  • March 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
  • March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
  • July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
  • November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
  • December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Donald Sheldon, American bush pilot (b. 1921)
• 1976 » João Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Filopimin Finos, Greek production manager and producer, founded Finos Film (b. 1908)
• 1979 » Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Simon Kapwepwe, Zambian politician, 2nd Vice President of Zambia (b. 1922)
• 1983 » Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (b. 1913)