Database Schaap » Jan Aarts Schaap (1901-1970)

Day of marriage July 7, 1927

• The temperature on July 7, 1927 was between 16.0 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). 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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
  • September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death August 11, 1970

• The temperature on August 11, 1970 was between 8.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
  • May 4 » Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
  • May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
  • August 7 » California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
  • October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
  • December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)