Family tree Weening » Jantje van der Veer (1917-1978)

Day of marriage October 14, 1938

• The temperature on October 14, 1938 was between 7.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (68%). 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
  • August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
  • October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
  • November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

Day of death September 23, 1978

• The temperature on September 23, 1978 was between 12.6 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily 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 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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
  • March 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
  • April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
  • August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
  • August 22 » The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.
  • November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (b. 1950)
• 1978 » Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)
• 1979 » Catherine Lacey, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1981 » Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (b. 1899)