Genealogy Van Baak » Bastiaan Marie van Baak (1899-1980)

Day of marriage March 28, 1931

• The temperature on March 28, 1931 was between -2.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
  • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
  • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
  • September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Day of death August 22, 1980

• The temperature on August 22, 1980 was between 11.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (32%). 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)
• 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 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 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
  • February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
  • April 3 » US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
  • April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
  • October 25 » Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
  • November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 » Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 » James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 » James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Vicente Manansala, Filipino painter (b. 1910)