Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmus Adrianus Verbaarschot (1890-1961)

Day of marriage May 13, 1912

• The temperature on May 13, 1912 was between 3.0 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (72%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Day of death August 15, 1961

• The temperature on August 15, 1961 was between 11.6 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
  • February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
  • April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
  • June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
  • October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
  • December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
• 1967 » René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)