Database Van Broekhoven » Theodorus Gerardus van Tongeren (1875-1962)

Day of marriage November 3, 1932

• The temperature on November 3, 1932 was between 6.4 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
  • February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
  • October 3 » Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • October 15 » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
  • November 8 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.

Day of death June 3, 1962

• The temperature on June 3, 1962 was between 3.6 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
  • July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
  • July 13 » In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
  • August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
  • October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)