Het Eiland Schiermonnikoog » Herman Bernard Drenth (1905-1980)

Day of marriage May 12, 1936

• The temperature on May 12, 1936 was between 9.1 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
  • April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
  • August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.

Day of death June 1, 1980

• The temperature on June 1, 1980 was between 8.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • March 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
  • April 7 » During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
  • April 12 » The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
  • June 1 » Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
  • June 3 » The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300million (equivalent to $931million in 2019) worth of damage.
  • November 12 » The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

Day of burial June 4, 1980

• The temperature on June 4, 1980 was between 8.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
  • February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
  • March 3 » The USSNautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
  • May 9 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
  • August 14 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
  • September 17 » Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Arthur Nielsen, American businessman, founded the ACNielsen company (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Carl Vinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1883)
• 1983 » Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (b. 1958)