Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Alle Bonkestoter (1918-1992)

Day of marriage June 28, 1941

• The temperature on June 28, 1941 was between 12.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
  • March 25 » The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
  • April 16 » World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
  • November 1 » American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
  • December 17 » World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
  • December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.

Day of death March 19, 1992

• The temperature on March 19, 1992 was between 5.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • April 6 » The Bosnian War begins.
  • June 15 » The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
  • November 11 » The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
  • December 3 » The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
  • December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.
  • December 21 » A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
• 1993 » Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (b. 1915)
• 1996 » Lise Østergaard, Danish psychologist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Virginia Henderson, American nurse, researcher, theorist and author (b. 1897)