Database Van Broekhoven » Jan Geers (1877-1964)

Day of marriage June 2, 1905

• The temperature on June 2, 1905 was between 9.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
  • April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Day of death August 20, 1964

• The temperature on August 20, 1964 was between 6.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
  • February 10 » Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMASVoyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
  • March 27 » The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
  • April 7 » A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
  • April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
  • April 26 » Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)