Database Van Broekhoven » Adriaan van Gool (1866-1948)

Day of marriage August 4, 1887

• The temperature on August 4, 1887 was about 18.6 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
  • April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
  • May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
  • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
  • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

Day of death January 4, 1948

• The temperature on January 4, 1948 was between 9.7 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
  • January 7 » Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
  • April 3 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5billion in aid for 16 countries.
  • July 16 » The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
  • July 31 » USSNevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
  • November 1 » Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1940 » Flora Finch, English-American actress and producer (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)
• 1944 » Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)