Database Van Broekhoven » Antonius Joannes Hermans (1899-1979)

Day of marriage October 2, 1928

• The temperature on October 2, 1928 was between 6.0 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). 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 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
  • November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.

Day of death November 5, 1979

• The temperature on November 5, 1979 was between 6.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
  • March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
  • July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
  • November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
  • November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
  • December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1977 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1979 » Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)