Family tree Weening » Albert Oets Gjaltema (1907-1977)

Day of marriage October 2, 1928

• The temperature on October 2, 1928 was between 6.0 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death June 20, 1977

• The temperature on June 20, 1977 was between 10.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1977: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
  • May 14 » A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport (now Kenneth Kaunda International Airport) in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
  • July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • August 3 » Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
  • October 6 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
  • December 4 » Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)