Database Van Broekhoven » Nicolaas Verhoeven (1896-1976)

Day of marriage November 3, 1931

• The temperature on November 3, 1931 was between 4.3 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
  • February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
  • October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.

Day of death December 5, 1976

• The temperature on December 5, 1976 was between -0.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • May 15 » Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes in Viktorovka, Chernihiv Raion, killing all 52 people on board.
  • May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
  • 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.
  • July 29 » In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
  • August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)
• 1977 » Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)