Family tree Denneman » Elisabeth Theresia Maria Kolster (1896-1975)

Day of marriage August 15, 1931

• The temperature on August 15, 1931 was between 11.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
  • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
  • July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
  • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
  • October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.

Day of death June 12, 1975

• The temperature on June 12, 1975 was between 12.1 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
  • April 4 » Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
  • June 5 » The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
  • October 16 » The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
  • December 6 » The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
  • December 26 » Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach2, went into service.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1978 » Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)