Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Hubertus "Bertus" Glas (1903-1977)

Day of marriage May 1, 1929

• The temperature on May 1, 1929 was between -0.2 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (63%). 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
  • June 7 » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

Day of death March 11, 1977

• The temperature on March 11, 1977 was between 4.8 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1977: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
  • March 23 » The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
  • July 19 » The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41a.m. Eastern time (ET).
  • July 20 » The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
  • September 12 » South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
  • November 6 » The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Claude François, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1939)
• 1980 » Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Edmund Cooper, English poet and author (b. 1926)
• 1982 » Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, and academic (b. 1898)