Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes van Happen (1896-1967)

Day of marriage May 7, 1934

• The temperature on May 7, 1934 was between 7.3 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
  • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
  • May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  • May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
  • August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
  • December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.

Day of death February 1, 1967

• The temperature on February 1, 1967 was between 7.1 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
  • May 10 » The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • May 26 » The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
  • June 14 » Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
  • October 4 » Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
  • December 17 » Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)