Database Van Broekhoven » Joannes Franciscus Graafmans (1891-1975)

Day of marriage November 16, 1915

• The temperature on November 16, 1915 was between -3.1 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.

Day of death January 30, 1975

• The temperature on January 30, 1975 was between 4.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • June 4 » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
  • June 20 » The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
  • July 31 » The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
  • August 14 » The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
  • September 4 » The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
  • November 10 » The 729-foot-long freighter SSEdmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1974 » Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1977 » Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)