Family tree Eussen » Elisabeth Maria Gerarda PIJLS (1925-1976)

Day of marriage March 3, 1953

• The temperature on March 3, 1953 was between -2.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
  • April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
  • April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
  • August 12 » The 7.2 M_s  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.

Day of death April 12, 1976

• The temperature on April 12, 1976 was between 0.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
  • April 11 » The Apple I is created.
  • June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
  • July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
  • October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.

Day of burial April 17, 1976

• The temperature on April 17, 1976 was between 3.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
  • January 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
  • April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
  • July 2 » End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
  • September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and dentist (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Arthur Freed, American songwriter and producer (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Josephine Baker, French actress, activist, and humanitarian (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Philip K. Wrigley, American businessman, co-founded Lincoln Park Gun Club (b. 1894)
• 1980 » William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (b. 1887)