* 1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player

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De Jong argued for a date of 100-110 AD, imagining links with writings of Ignatius and Polycarp.

De Jong graduated from the Royal Netherlands Naval College in 1934 and joined the Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine Service and served on HNLMS O 24 during World War II, he ended the war as the commanding officer of that vessel, the HNLMS O 24 was one of the few Dutch submarines that survived the war.

After World War II De Jong continued to serve in the Royal Netherlands Navy, commanding two frigates and serving as aide-de-camp to Queen Juliana.

After the Dutch general election of 1967, De Jong became Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of General Affairs, leading the Cabinet de Jong.

After his premiership, De Jong remained in active politics and became the Parliamentary leader of the Catholic People's Party in the Senate and a Member of the Senate serving from May 11, 1971 until September 17, 1974 and finally retiring from active politics at the age of fifty nine.

Following the end of his active political career, De Jong occupied numerous seats on supervisory boards in the business and industry world.

De Jong is known for his dry wit and his abilities as a team leader, his cabinet was the first cabinet after World War II that completed a full term without any internal conflicts.

Over forty years after he left office, De Jong continues to comment on political affairs as an elder statesman.

Piet de Jong at the inauguration of his Netherlands cabinet De Jong | cabinet in 1967.

On May 13, 1940 De Jong sailed to England on board the Dutch HNLMS O 24 and during World War II he saw action initially as first officer and from mid-1944 onwards as Commanding officer of that vessel.

From 1951 to the end of 1952, De Jong commanded a naval frigate HNLMS De Zeeuw, after which he joined the staff of the Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel in the British naval base at Portsmouth.

In 1959, while active as the commanding officer of the HNLMS Gelderland, De Jong was surprisingly asked by the Catholic People's Party to be the new State Secretary for Defence in the Cabinet de Quay.

De Jong, who was at the time not even a member of the party, eventually agreed to the position and became a member of the Catholic People's Party that year.

From June 25, 1959 to July 24, 1963, De Jong served State Secretary for Defence in the Cabinet de Quay and immediately thereafter Minister of Defence in the successive Cabinets Marijnen, Cals and Zijlstra.

During his term as Prime Minister of the Netherlands De Jong met with numeral state leaders, including then President Richard Nixon, Presidents of France Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou.

After serving as Prime Minister of the Netherlands De Jong became a member of the Senate, where he served from 1971 to 1974 and as the Parliamentary leader in the Senate.

Following the end of his active political career, De Jong occupied many posts in industry and seats on numerous supervisory boards.

On March 25, 2010 De Jong, still visibly spirituous and active, gave a speech at Nieuwspoort ( Newsgate ) about the publication of the biography of former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the 5th Secretary General of NATO Joseph Luns.

On April 24, 2010 during the annual Christian Democratic Appeal party conference, De Jong spoke about former Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Party party leader Wouter Bos and his actions which led to the fall of the Cabinet Balkenende IV.

De Jong spoke against this support and said that the Party for Freedom ( PVV ) stand about Freedom of religion was a deal breaker.

Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.

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