Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Johan Herman Wittendorp (1906-1972)

Day of marriage May 24, 1930

• The temperature on May 24, 1930 was between 8.7 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • March 13 » The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
  • April 28 » The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
  • May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
  • 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.
  • September 6 » Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
  • November 11 » Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

Day of death February 5, 1972

• The temperature on February 5, 1972 was between 0.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • March 22 » In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
  • April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
  • July 19 » Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
  • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
  • September 4 » Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
  • December 8 » United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1970 » Rudy York, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1913)
• 1971 » Lew "Sneaky Pete" Robinson, drag racer (b. 1933)
• 1972 » Marianne Moore, American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1926)