Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Jurjen de Boer (1906-1963)

Day of marriage February 19, 1927

• The temperature on February 19, 1927 was between -5.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Day of death March 10, 1963

• The temperature on March 10, 1963 was between 3.5 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 29 » The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
  • May 30 » A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
  • July 26 » The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
  • August 15 » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
  • August 28 » March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
  • December 10 » An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (b. 1906)