Database Van Broekhoven » Christianus van Herpen (1901-1979)

Day of marriage May 31, 1929

• The temperature on May 31, 1929 was between 5.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
  • February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
  • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
  • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).

Day of death June 13, 1979

• The temperature on June 13, 1979 was between 11.4 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
  • April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
  • May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
  • May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
  • June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
  • July 1 » Sony introduces the Walkman.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1979 » Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
• 1980 » Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1981 » Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)
• 1984 » António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)