Database Van Broekhoven » Josephus Hubertus Philipsen (1896-1976)

Day of marriage August 9, 1921

• The temperature on August 9, 1921 was between 6.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
  • February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
  • June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
  • July 11 » The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.

Day of death March 11, 1976

• The temperature on March 11, 1976 was between -0.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
  • July 18 » Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
  • July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
  • September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
  • September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
  • December 2 » Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (b. 1889)
• 1971 » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
• 1971 » Whitney Young, American activist (b. 1921)
• 1977 » Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Claude François, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1939)
• 1980 » Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1902)