January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death December 18, 1978
The temperature on December 18, 1978 was between -7.4 °C and -4.0 °C and averaged -5.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
March 16 » Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Freerk Bosscha, "Family tree van Bosscha, Broersma, van Dijk, van der Meulen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-bosscha-broersma-van-dijk-van-der-meulen/I9623728.php : accessed June 15, 2024), "Freerk Dirks de Jager (1902-1978)".
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