Family tree Theo Bijl » Adriana Trouwborst (1903-1975)

Day of marriage April 15, 1925

• The temperature on April 15, 1925 was between 4.6 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • February 15 » The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
  • March 18 » The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
  • April 4 » The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi party in Germany.
  • April 16 » During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
  • April 18 » The International Amateur Radio Union is formed in Paris.
  • November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

Day of death May 16, 1975

• The temperature on May 16, 1975 was between 9.8 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • January 2 » At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
  • January 5 » The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
  • March 26 » The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
  • March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • April 30 » Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
  • July 15 » Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)
• 1979 » A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1984 » Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)