Family tree de Crom » Adrianus Alphonsus de Nijs (1909-1978)

Day of marriage August 12, 1947

• The temperature on August 12, 1947 was between 11.6 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • October 1 » The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

Day of death November 8, 1978

• The temperature on November 8, 1978 was between 1.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
  • March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
  • July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
  • September 8 » Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700–3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
  • December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
• 1975 » Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)
• 1978 » Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894)