Family tree Panjer » Elisabeth Lambertha de Ruyter (1894-1978)

Day of marriage May 26, 1917

• The temperature on May 26, 1917 was between 6.4 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
  • February 3 » First World War: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
  • November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
  • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Day of death March 9, 1978

• The temperature on March 9, 1978 was between 2.5 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (84%). 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 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.
  • April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  • July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
  • July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
  • 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 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)