Database Van Broekhoven » Willem Loeff (1892-1978)

Day of marriage April 4, 1921

• The temperature on April 4, 1921 was between 2.3 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
  • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
  • September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

Day of death June 10, 1978

• The temperature on June 10, 1978 was between 7.8 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or 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 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.
  • April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  • May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
  • June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
  • July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
  • December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1973 » William Inge, American playwright and novelist (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1873)
• 1982 » Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1945)
• 1984 » Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish author and poet (b. 1901)