Family tree Driessen » Allegonda Klarenbeek (1896-1973)

Day of marriage June 27, 1923

• The temperature on June 27, 1923 was between 6.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
  • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death April 16, 1973

• The temperature on April 16, 1973 was between 6.9 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
  • June 20 » Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board.
  • July 25 » Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
  • October 21 » Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
  • November 25 » Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 » István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)