Tree of René » Sigrid Nilsson (1898-1974)

Day of marriage April 29, 1921

• The temperature on April 29, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
  • March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
  • March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
  • July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
  • July 11 » The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.

Day of death December 11, 1974

• The temperature on December 11, 1974 was between 1.7 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 21.4 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam
  • February 1 » A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
  • February 22 » The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
  • March 9 » The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
  • June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
  • September 25 » Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

Day of burial December 21, 1974

• The temperature on December 21, 1974 was between 7.1 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • March 5 » Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
  • March 9 » The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
  • April 1 » The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
  • July 20 » Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
  • November 23 » Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)