Aart Mosterd » Evertje Knoppersen (1932-2019)

Birthday May 10, 1932

• The temperature on May 10, 1932 was between 3.7 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped.
  • July 28 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
  • September 17 » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
  • September 24 » Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
  • December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
  • December 19 » BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Antonine Maillet, Canadian author and playwright
• 1929 » Audun Boysen, Norwegian runner († 2000)
• 1929 » George Coe, American actor and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1933 » Jean Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter