Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Lambertus Beekmans (1895-1983)

Day of marriage December 31, 1919

• The temperature on December 31, 1919 was between 3.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • June 7 » Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
  • June 21 » Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
  • September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
  • October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Day of death July 20, 1983

• The temperature on July 20, 1983 was between 10.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 24 » A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
  • March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
  • April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
  • October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
  • November 15 » Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
  • December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (b. 1939)
• 1980 » Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) potter (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Frank Reynolds, American soldier and journalist (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Richard Egan, American soldier and actor (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Forrest H. Anderson, American judge and politician, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1913)