Database Van Broekhoven » Willemijntje Smaling (1908-1961)

Day of marriage May 15, 1929

• The temperature on May 15, 1929 was between 5.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

Day of death July 3, 1961

• The temperature on July 3, 1961 was between 15.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
  • May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
  • May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
  • May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
  • September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  • September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Reginald Marsh, French-American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1898)
• 1954 » Siegfried Handloser, German physician and general (b. 1895)
• 1957 » Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (b. 1904)
• 1958 » Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1867)
• 1969 » Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1942)