Database Van Broekhoven » Willem Welten (1882-1974)

Day of marriage July 22, 1918

• The temperature on July 22, 1918 was between 12.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • March 31 » Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
  • April 8 » World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
  • July 12 » The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
  • September 29 » The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
  • November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
  • November 25 » Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.

Day of death October 4, 1974

• The temperature on October 4, 1974 was between 7.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 33.2 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 22 » Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.
  • February 23 » The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
  • August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
  • August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
  • November 13 » Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
  • December 22 » The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)