Family tree Van der Elst/Op 't Ende » Annegina Olfina Veldhuis (1902-1979)

Day of marriage May 11, 1928

• The temperature on May 11, 1928 was between -1.4 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.

Day of death May 14, 1979

• The temperature on May 14, 1979 was between 8.6 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
  • November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
  • November 12 » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
  • November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
  • November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
  • November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943)
• 1979 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
• 1982 » Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Roger J. Traynor, American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (b. 1900)