Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Jans de Vries (1884-1952)

Day of marriage October 27, 1906

• The temperature on October 27, 1906 was between 4.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Day of death November 8, 1952

• The temperature on November 8, 1952 was between 3.0 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • April 28 » The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
  • June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
  • August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
  • August 12 » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
  • November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
• 1949 » Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
• 1953 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1953 » John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)
• 1959 » Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)