Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Jacob Bruinsma (1900-1969)

Day of marriage May 17, 1919

• The temperature on May 17, 1919 was between 6.6 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • June 15 » John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
  • July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
  • July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
  • October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.

Day of death December 13, 1969

• The temperature on December 13, 1969 was between -0.8 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • April 15 » The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
  • August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
  • October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
  • October 8 » The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
  • October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
  • December 17 » Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
• 1962 » Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
• 1969 » Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889)