Family tree Fopma/Bouma » Meindert Hendriks Fritsma (1895-1979)

Day of marriage March 22, 1924

• The temperature on March 22, 1924 was between 3.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
  • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

Day of death September 11, 1979

• The temperature on September 11, 1979 was between 12.9 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Normal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States.
  • March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
  • August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
  • December 3 » Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
  • December 23 » Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
  • December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

Day of cremation September 14, 1979

• The temperature on September 14, 1979 was between 3.3 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
  • June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
  • September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
  • September 29 » The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
  • November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
  • December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Georgi Markov, Bulgarian author and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Janet Parker, English photographer (b. 1938)
• 1978 » Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (b. 1944)
• 1982 » Albert Soboul, French historian and academic (b. 1914)