Family tree Van Rijn » Gerardus Johannes de Jong (1889-1970)

Day of marriage April 10, 1918

• The temperature on April 10, 1918 was between 6.4 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • March 23 » First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
  • May 26 » The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
  • August 21 » World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
  • October 1 » World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
  • October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
  • October 10 » RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.

Day of death December 24, 1970

• The temperature on December 24, 1970 was between -6.9 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
  • October 26 » Muhammad Ali boxes for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus due to draft evasion.
  • November 4 » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
  • November 14 » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
  • December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
  • December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)
• 1971 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)