Pedigree Plomp » Hendrik Jan Maris (1906-1977)

Day of marriage May 18, 1966

• The temperature on May 18, 1966 was between 10.7 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
  • May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
  • July 18 » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
  • July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
  • October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
  • December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.

Day of death April 21, 1977

• The temperature on April 21, 1977 was between 7.8 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1977: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
  • February 4 » A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
  • March 23 » The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
  • April 7 » German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
  • May 31 » The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
  • September 7 » The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
  • December 1 » Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b.1947)
• 1978 » Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (b. 1877)
• 1980 » Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (b. 1928)