Family tree Van Houtum » Hendrikus Lambertus "Driek" van Houtum (1904-1983)

Day of marriage May 30, 1927

• The temperature on May 30, 1927 was between 5.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

Day of death June 12, 1983

• The temperature on June 12, 1983 was between 11.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
  • September 6 » The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
  • September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
  • October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
  • December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
  • December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

Day of burial June 15, 1983

• The temperature on June 15, 1983 was between 7.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
  • March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
  • March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
  • March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
  • July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
  • October 12 » Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1982 » Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
• 1982 » Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1983 » Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)