Database Van Broekhoven » Hendrik Versteeg (1896-1966)

Day of marriage November 7, 1923

• The temperature on November 7, 1923 was between 1.2 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). 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 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
  • August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
  • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
  • October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
  • October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.

Day of death January 11, 1966

• The temperature on January 11, 1966 was between -7.0 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -5.1 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
  • March 8 » Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
  • March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
  • May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
  • October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
  • December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 » Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
• 1966 » Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
• 1968 » Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
• 1969 » Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)