Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Maria Johanna Veltrop (1909-1985)

Day of marriage October 13, 1928

• The temperature on October 13, 1928 was between -1.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
  • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death August 26, 1985

• The temperature on August 26, 1985 was between 8.9 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
  • April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
  • July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
  • August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
  • October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
  • November 19 » Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1987 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 » John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)