Brabantse Stambomen » Adrianus Franciscus Verhoeven (1907-1968)

Day of marriage August 20, 1935

• The temperature on August 20, 1935 was between 11.2 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • May 31 » A 7.7 M_w  earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
  • June 11 » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
  • October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
  • December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
  • December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death December 22, 1968

• The temperature on December 22, 1968 was between -0.2 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
  • April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
  • April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
  • June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
  • October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
  • December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

Day of burial December 26, 1968

• The temperature on December 26, 1968 was between -1.9 and 2.5 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
  • February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
  • March 18 » Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
  • October 22 » Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
  • October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
  • November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Ross McLarty, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Richard Dimbleby, English journalist (b. 1913)
• 1968 » Raymond Gram Swing, American journalist (b. 1887)
• 1969 » Enrique Peñaranda, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Godfried Bomans, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Sterling North, American author and critic (b. 1906)