Family tree De Kunder » Adriaan de Kunder (1898-1978)

Day of marriage July 14, 1921

• The temperature on July 14, 1921 was between 7.4 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
  • March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.

Day of death February 23, 1978

• The temperature on February 23, 1978 was between 3.3 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
  • March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
  • April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  • May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
  • June 22 » Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
  • August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

Day of burial February 27, 1978

• The temperature on February 27, 1978 was between 7.5 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 31 » The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
  • March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  • June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
  • July 1 » The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
  • August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• 1979 » W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)