Family tree Driessens Zandvliet » Florentinus Costermans (1900-1978)

Day of marriage June 19, 1926

• The temperature on June 19, 1926 was between 10.0 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (43%). 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
  • November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

Day of death November 26, 1978

• The temperature on November 26, 1978 was between 0.1 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • 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.
  • June 25 » The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
  • July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
  • July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
  • September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
  • December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

Day of burial November 30, 1978

• The temperature on November 30, 1978 was between -3.7 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
  • December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
  • December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1978 » Frank Rosolino, American trombonist (b. 1926)
• 1981 » Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (b. 1901)
• 1981 » Pete DePaolo, American race car driver (b. 1898)