Database Van Broekhoven » Christiaan Franciscus Josephus Smits (1899-1975)

Day of marriage January 19, 1925

• The temperature on January 19, 1925 was between 2.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • April 16 » During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
  • April 18 » The International Amateur Radio Union is formed in Paris.
  • April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
  • May 1 » The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134million members.
  • July 25 » Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
  • September 17 » Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up art.

Day of death February 24, 1975

• The temperature on February 24, 1975 was between -2.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • April 8 » Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
  • June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
  • September 5 » Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
  • November 11 » Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
  • December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (b.1891)
• 1982 » Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)