Family tree Wallis-Gillen » Theodorus Willem Cornelis Marchand (1898-1959)

Day of marriage August 21, 1926

• The temperature on August 21, 1926 was between 16.5 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
  • March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
  • May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
  • May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.

Day of death October 16, 1959

• The temperature on October 16, 1959 was between 5.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
  • July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
  • July 27 » The Continental League is announced as baseball's "3rd major league" in the United States.
  • September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
  • October 30 » Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
  • November 23 » French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)