Family tree Looije(n) » Johanna Hendrika Looijen (1895-1971)

Day of marriage March 7, 1928

• The temperature on March 7, 1928 was between 2.5 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
  • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Day of death October 12, 1971

• The temperature on October 12, 1971 was between 8.0 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • March 25 » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
  • June 7 » The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
  • November 22 » In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
  • December 8 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
  • December 20 » The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)
• 1970 » Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (b. 1930)
• 1971 » Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Gene Vincent, American musician (b. 1935)
• 1972 » Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor and politician (b. 1900)