Database Van Broekhoven » Franciscus Johannes Maria de Kok (1901-1981)

Day of marriage May 12, 1930

• The temperature on May 12, 1930 was between 4.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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 year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • February 10 » The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope to overthrow French protectorate over Vietnam.
  • March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
  • April 2 » After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
  • April 22 » The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
  • August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

Day of death May 9, 1981

• The temperature on May 9, 1981 was between 11.0 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USSGeorge Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
  • April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
  • April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
  • May 21 » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
  • August 5 » President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)
• 1979 » Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
• 1979 » Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Kate Molale, South African activist (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)