Database Van Broekhoven » Francois Paludanus (1891-1966)

Day of marriage May 10, 1916

• The temperature on May 10, 1916 was between 1.9 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
  • March 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
  • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
  • November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Day of death September 27, 1966

• The temperature on September 27, 1966 was between 11.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • February 28 » A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
  • May 25 » Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
  • July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
  • August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • November 2 » The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
  • November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1965 » William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1887)
• 1972 » S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892)