Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Maria Geerts (1919-2014)

Day of marriage November 29, 1947

• The temperature on November 29, 1947 was between -0.3 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
  • October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
  • October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
  • November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

Day of death October 17, 2014

• The temperature on October 17, 2014 was between 11.8 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
  • March 18 » The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
  • May 5 » Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
  • May 23 » Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • June 14 » A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
  • September 16 » The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
• 2014 » Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)