Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Leonardus Cornelis Wijzenbroek (1895-1976)

Day of marriage October 11, 1923

• The temperature on October 11, 1923 was between 6.4 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
  • June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
  • September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
  • October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.

Day of death April 24, 1976

• The temperature on April 24, 1976 was between 0.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • March 16 » British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
  • April 13 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
  • April 13 » The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
  • September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
  • September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)