Family tree Menting » Gerrit Martinus van Rooijen (1906-1972)

Day of marriage January 20, 1927

• The temperature on January 20, 1927 was between -1.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
  • May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
  • November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

Day of death July 6, 1972

• The temperature on July 6, 1972 was between 12.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • June 9 » Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160million in damage.
  • September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
  • September 24 » Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
  • November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
  • December 23 » The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1886)