Family tree Lars Werner » Adrianus van VIEGEN (1894-1970)

Day of marriage February 3, 1921

• The temperature on February 3, 1921 was between -1.5 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
  • February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
  • August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
  • September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

Day of death November 28, 1970

• The temperature on November 28, 1970 was between 2.5 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
  • April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
  • April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
  • June 11 » After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so.
  • October 2 » An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
  • November 9 » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Enid Blyton, English author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Wasfi al-Tal, Jordanian captain and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1920)
• 1972 » Havergal Brian, English composer (b. 1875)
• 1973 » Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author and poet (b. 1886)
• 1975 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (b.1890)
• 1976 » Rosalind Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1907)