Database Van Broekhoven » Andries Johannes Cornelis Wierstra (1894-1956)

Day of marriage April 18, 1923

• The temperature on April 18, 1923 was between 3.2 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
  • 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 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
  • October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

Day of death October 8, 1956

• The average temperature on October 8, 1956 was 6.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • June 20 » A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
  • June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
  • October 14 » Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
  • October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
  • October 19 » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
  • November 3 » Hungarian Revolution: A new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. During negotiations on Tököl Island ostensibly on Soviet troop withdrawal, the KGB arrests Pál Maléter and other Hungarian Revolutionary commanders, effectively decapitating the Revolution's military leadership. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops ready for the final assault.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1953 » Kathleen Ferrier, English soprano (b. 1912)
• 1953 » Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)
• 1955 » Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (b. 1928)
• 1958 » Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (b. 1908)