Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Derk Dokter (1908-1993)

Day of marriage May 17, 1930

• The temperature on May 17, 1930 was between 6.3 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
  • February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
  • March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
  • May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
  • June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
  • July 7 » Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

Day of death April 8, 1993

• The temperature on April 8, 1993 was between -0.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
  • March 11 » Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
  • March 22 » The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
  • April 27 » Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
  • August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
  • November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Marian Anderson, American operatic singer (b. 1897)
• 1994 » François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)