Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Johanna Alkema (1898-1975)

Day of marriage March 15, 1919

• The temperature on March 15, 1919 was between 0.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
  • February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
  • June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
  • September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
  • October 3 » Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
  • December 1 » Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)

Day of death August 6, 1975

• The temperature on August 6, 1975 was between 18.2 °C and 32.0 °C and averaged 25.2 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • March 22 » A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
  • April 3 » Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
  • June 12 » India, Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign.
  • July 15 » Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
  • August 14 » The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
  • December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)