Noblesse Européenne - European Nobility » "Karel Lodewijk" Cornelis Maria Ignatius de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteyn (1901-1975)

Day of marriage May 11, 1949

• The temperature on May 11, 1949 was between 5.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 8.6 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
  • May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
  • June 14 » Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134km (83mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
  • August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
  • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
  • November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.

Day of death October 10, 1975

• The temperature on October 10, 1975 was between 2.5 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
  • March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
  • April 25 » As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
  • May 6 » During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut for the 60th anniversary commemorations of the Armenian Genocide.
  • July 27 » Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.
  • September 5 » Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (b. 1881)
• 1974 » Werner Heyking, Danish actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 1976 » Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Angelo Muscat, Maltese-English actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 » Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)