Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Grietje Geertruida Theodora "Grietje" de Jong (1903-1982)

Day of marriage June 22, 1927

• The temperature on June 22, 1927 was between 6.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
  • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

Day of death March 12, 1982

• The temperature on March 12, 1982 was between 2.1 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1982: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • May 29 » Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
  • June 8 » Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFASir Galahad and RFASir Tristram.
  • August 27 » Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1​⁄₂ million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
  • October 1 » Epcot opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
  • October 14 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
  • November 13 » The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)