Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelis Maria Joannes Koolen (1907-1970)

Day of marriage July 9, 1935

• The temperature on July 9, 1935 was between 9.8 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
  • April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
  • May 27 » New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
  • June 11 » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
  • July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
  • December 17 » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.

Day of death July 3, 1970

• The temperature on July 3, 1970 was between 12.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
  • May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
  • September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
  • September 5 » Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
  • September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
  • November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1971 » Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1891)
• 1978 » James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1979 » Louis Durey, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)