Family tree Van Loo » Hendrik "Henk" Kuiper (1920-1979)

Day of marriage October 12, 1956

• The temperature on October 12, 1956 was between 5.1 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
  • May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
  • July 9 » The 7.7 M_w  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
  • September 25 » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
  • October 19 » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
  • November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Day of death March 25, 1979

• The temperature on March 25, 1979 was between 5.0 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 26 » Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
  • March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
  • April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
  • June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
  • July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
  • November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.

Day of cremation March 29, 1979

• The temperature on March 29, 1979 was between 1.4 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄₂-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
  • March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
  • March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
  • 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.
  • October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Benjamin Miessner, American radio engineer and inventor (b. 1890)
• 1976 » Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (b. 1888)
• 1979 » Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1979 » Robert Madgwick, Australian colonel and academic (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and psychologist (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Walter Susskind, Czech-English conductor and educator (b. 1913)