Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Maria Elisabeth Hake (1883-1963)

Day of marriage September 8, 1910

• The temperature on September 8, 1910 was between 7.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
  • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Day of death October 16, 1963

• The temperature on October 16, 1963 was between 8.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
  • January 22 » The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
  • May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
  • October 10 » France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
  • October 18 » Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
  • October 31 » A propane tank explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now the Indiana Farmers Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show.

Day of burial October 19, 1963

• The temperature on October 19, 1963 was between 6.0 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.
  • May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
  • June 5 » The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
  • July 1 » ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
  • July 19 » Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
  • July 26 » An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1966 » George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)