Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Anna Margaretha Josephina Tholen (1898-1991)

Day of marriage April 23, 1921

• The temperature on April 23, 1921 was between 0.4 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (23%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
  • October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
  • December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

Day of death December 15, 1991

• The temperature on December 15, 1991 was between -3.9 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • April 26 » 55 tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
  • April 29 » A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
  • May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
  • May 28 » The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
  • October 1 » Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
  • October 4 » The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian physician and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Serge Lifar, Russian-French ballet dancer and choreographer
• 1989 » Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (b. 1915)
• 1993 » William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)