Anthonius Monickx's parents started in 1656 in Meijel » Maria Gertruda "Marie" Ceelen (1890-1979)

Day of death April 15, 1979

• The temperature on April 15, 1979 was between 10.0 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
  • May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
  • July 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
  • October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
  • October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
  • October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.

Day of burial April 18, 1979

• The temperature on April 18, 1979 was between 1.4 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 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 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.
  • March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
  • April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
  • September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
  • October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
  • November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)