Database Admiraal » Albert Johan Aldenkamp (1897-1978)

Day of marriage July 14, 1923

• The temperature on July 14, 1923 was between 18.1 °C and 31.9 °C and averaged 24.9 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
  • July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.

Day of death March 26, 1978

• The temperature on March 26, 1978 was between 4.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
  • September 5 » Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
  • October 21 » Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
  • November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
  • December 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
  • December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Noël Coward, English playwright, actor, and composer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Beauford Delaney, American-French painter (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Jean Stafford, American author and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Roland Barthes, French linguist and critic (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (b. 1907)