Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Godefridus Hesselmans (1907-1978)

Day of marriage September 20, 1933

• The temperature on September 20, 1933 was between 8.7 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
  • February 20 » Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
  • March 10 » The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.
  • May 12 » The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • November 7 » Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
  • December 17 » The first NFL Championship Game is played. The game was at Wrigley Field between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21.

Day of death March 31, 1978

• The temperature on March 31, 1978 was between 5.0 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
  • January 13 » United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
  • March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
  • April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
  • August 19 » In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
  • August 22 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Astrid Allwyn, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913)
• 1980 » Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (b. 1905)