Family tree Van der Nol(l), Oosterloo, van Spronsen, van der Waart e.d. » Gerritje van der Meiden (1902-1978)

Day of marriage May 20, 1926

• The temperature on May 20, 1926 was between 6.0 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
  • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.

Day of death June 14, 1978

• The temperature on June 14, 1978 was between 10.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
  • February 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
  • March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
  • March 16 » Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
  • April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
  • August 19 » In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Alan Reed, American actor, original voice of Fred Flintstone (b.1907)
• 1977 » Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1979 » Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1980 » Charles Miller, American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (b. 1899)