Database Van Broekhoven » Gerardus de Gouw (1889-1974)

Day of marriage May 23, 1927

• The temperature on May 23, 1927 was between 6.6 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Day of death November 22, 1974

• The temperature on November 22, 1974 was between 7.0 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 13.9 mm of rain during 12.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
  • February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
  • May 15 » Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
  • July 27 » Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
  • August 1 » Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• 1976 » Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
• 1980 » Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
• 1981 » Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)