Database Van Broekhoven » Jacobus Verspeek (1900-1983)

Day of marriage January 28, 1939

• The temperature on January 28, 1939 was between 0.9 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • February 25 » As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.
  • May 14 » Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
  • September 2 » World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
  • September 6 » World War II: Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
  • September 18 » World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
  • December 17 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.

Day of death June 9, 1983

• The temperature on June 9, 1983 was between 12.8 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
  • March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
  • September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
  • October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
  • October 30 » The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
  • December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
• 1981 » Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
• 1989 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)