Database Van Broekhoven » Eduard van Dijk (1882-1951)

Day of marriage August 17, 1928

• The temperature on August 17, 1928 was between 8.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death October 28, 1951

• The temperature on October 28, 1951 was between 5.7 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • February 9 » Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea
  • February 25 » The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
  • March 6 » Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
  • April 29 » Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
  • May 16 » The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
  • May 21 » The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)