Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Sjoerd Middel (1891-1972)

Day of marriage March 19, 1914

• The temperature on March 19, 1914 was between 0.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
  • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.

Day of death September 14, 1972

• The temperature on September 14, 1972 was between 9.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • February 3 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
  • February 10 » Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
  • February 22 » The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
  • May 2 » In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.
  • May 15 » In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become president.
  • December 29 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
• 1966 » Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1966 » Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)