Family tree Tom en Désirée Rowel-Janssen » Pietje Hovestad (1882-1972)

Day of marriage September 26, 1921

• The temperature on September 26, 1921 was between 2.9 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • July 11 » The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
  • October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Day of death May 26, 1972

• The temperature on May 26, 1972 was between 10.4 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 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 17 » Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process.
  • October 29 » The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
  • December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
  • December 19 » Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
  • December 26 » Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

Day of burial May 31, 1972

• The temperature on May 31, 1972 was between 8.5 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • April 10 » Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
  • May 5 » Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
  • July 21 » The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
  • August 11 » Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
  • September 30 » Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
  • December 23 » A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)