Family tree Looije(n) » Willem Evert Looijen (1913-1973)

Day of marriage May 2, 1936

• The temperature on May 2, 1936 was between 5.9 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
  • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
  • July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
  • 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.

Day of death March 11, 1973

• The temperature on March 11, 1973 was between 1.2 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (31%). 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
  • May 3 » The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
  • May 5 » Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59​⁄₅, an as-yet unbeaten record.
  • May 17 » Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
  • June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
  • October 25 » Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » John Daly, Irish runner (b. 1880)
• 1969 » John Wyndham, English soldier and author (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (b. 1889)
• 1971 » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
• 1971 » Whitney Young, American activist (b. 1921)
• 1977 » Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)