Family tree Steenhagen » Roelof Willemsen (1902-1978)

Day of marriage July 13, 1929

• The temperature on July 13, 1929 was between 11.1 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death June 12, 1978

• The temperature on June 12, 1978 was between 10.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
  • April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  • June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
  • June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
  • October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
  • December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1978 » Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
• 1980 » Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)