Database Van Broekhoven » Josephus Cornelis Meijs (1885-1961)

Day of marriage May 25, 1914

• The temperature on May 25, 1914 was between 6.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.

Day of death January 11, 1961

• The temperature on January 11, 1961 was between -2.6 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
  • February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
  • September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
  • September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
  • September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
  • November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1958 » Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)