Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Jacobus Josephus Verhaar (1887-1976)

Day of marriage May 10, 1929

• The temperature on May 10, 1929 was between 4.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
  • May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • October 18 » The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Day of death October 29, 1976

• The temperature on October 29, 1976 was between 6.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
  • January 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
  • April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
  • September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
  • September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
  • October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
• 1980 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)