Database Van Broekhoven » Catharina Maria Visseren (1899-1972)

Day of marriage August 13, 1924

• The temperature on August 13, 1924 was between 10.9 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
  • July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
  • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.

Day of death March 6, 1972

• The temperature on March 6, 1972 was between 3.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • February 21 » The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
  • May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
  • May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
  • June 16 » The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
  • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
• 1967 » Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1970 » William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1973 » Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)
• 1976 » Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (b. 1903)