MoeskopsVerschuren » Adrianus Johannes Broos (1905-1983)

Day of marriage May 10, 1930

• The temperature on May 10, 1930 was between 4.1 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
  • April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
  • April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
  • May 7 » The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
  • June 1 » The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives.
  • August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

Day of death August 26, 1983

• The temperature on August 26, 1983 was between 13.4 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
  • April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
  • September 23 » Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
  • October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
  • November 17 » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
  • December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)