Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelis Petrus Maria van Gorp (1904-1977)

Day of marriage August 1, 1927

• The temperature on August 1, 1927 was between 12.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
  • August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

Day of death October 21, 1977

• The temperature on October 21, 1977 was between 10.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1977: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
  • January 18 » SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • February 18 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
  • July 24 » End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
  • September 4 » The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
  • September 7 » The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
  • December 1 » Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Nasif Estéfano, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1932)
• 1975 » Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Ferit Tüzün, Turkish composer (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1980 » Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Radka Toneff, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1952)