Database Van Broekhoven » Joseph Cornelis Martens (1909-1976)

Day of marriage April 3, 1948

• The temperature on April 3, 1948 was between 4.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • April 21 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
  • May 20 » Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
  • July 12 » Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
  • July 16 » Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • August 3 » Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
  • September 12 » Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign has begun.

Day of death September 26, 1976

• The temperature on September 26, 1976 was between 10.3 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
  • July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
  • August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
  • October 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
  • November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
  • December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Anna Magnani, Italian actress and singer (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
• 1973 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)