Family tree Eussen » Alexander Jozef MEYERS (1901-1970)

Day of marriage September 23, 1927

• The temperature on September 23, 1927 was between 10.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
  • April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  • April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.

Day of death October 14, 1970

• The temperature on October 14, 1970 was between 6.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
  • May 31 » The 7.9 M_w  Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
  • August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
  • September 8 » Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
  • October 5 » The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
  • November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

Day of burial October 17, 1970

• The temperature on October 17, 1970 was between 2.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
  • April 24 » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
  • May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
  • September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
  • September 19 » Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
  • December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1969 » August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
• 1969 » Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1973 » Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (b. 1929)
• 1973 » Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)