Family tree Van Loon » Willem Johannes van Greuningen (1903-1979)

Day of marriage August 17, 1927

• The temperature on August 17, 1927 was between 10.4 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • 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 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.
  • January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
  • February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
  • April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
  • June 9 » The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
  • August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
  • November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.

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)