Family tree Groothelm » Theunis de Vries (1895-1979)

Day of marriage May 23, 1936

• The temperature on May 23, 1936 was between 2.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
  • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
  • November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
  • December 7 » Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
  • December 21 » First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.

Day of death April 3, 1979

• The temperature on April 3, 1979 was between -2.0 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 12.1 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily 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 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.
  • March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
  • March 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
  • August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
  • September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
  • October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
  • November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1976 » David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)