Family tree Menting » Matthijs Breel (1901-1973)

Day of marriage March 16, 1927

• The temperature on March 16, 1927 was between -2.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
  • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

Day of death September 2, 1973

• The temperature on September 2, 1973 was between 14.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The 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 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.
  • January 11 » Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
  • January 22 » The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
  • May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
  • August 15 » Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
  • October 20 » "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1973 » Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1973 » J. R. R. Tolkien, English novelist, short story writer, poet, and philologist (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Mabel Vernon, American activist (b. 1883)
• 1976 » Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1934)