Genealogy N.P. Mantel » Jacob Zwaan (1904-1984)

Day of marriage May 8, 1930

• The temperature on May 8, 1930 was between 2.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
  • March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
  • June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
  • August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
  • October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
  • December 29 » Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

Day of death November 11, 1984

• The temperature on November 11, 1984 was between 8.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
  • January 28 » Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
  • June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
  • September 20 » A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
  • November 14 » Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
  • December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (b. 1901)
• 1984 » Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
• 1988 » Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (b. 1897)
• 1988 » William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)