Family tree Van Rijn » Sebastianus van Schagen (1890-1968)

Day of marriage January 23, 1929

• The temperature on January 23, 1929 was between 0.7 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • May 1 » The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
  • June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
  • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Day of death October 14, 1968

• The temperature on October 14, 1968 was between 5.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
  • January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
  • May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
  • July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
  • November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
  • December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

Day of burial October 16, 1968

• The temperature on October 16, 1968 was between 7.2 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
  • April 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
  • April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
  • September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
  • October 20 » Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
  • December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1965 » William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1969 » August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
• 1969 » Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1973 » Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)