Genealogieën Bex/Vromen/Overhof(f)/Herings » Antonius Nicolaas BEKX (1892-1978)

Day of marriage April 26, 1921

• The temperature on April 26, 1921 was between 6.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Day of death June 9, 1978

• The temperature on June 9, 1978 was between 11.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
  • February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
  • March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
  • June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
  • August 22 » The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.
  • August 22 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
• 1973 » John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
• 1981 » Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)