Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Hendrik Schoo (1901-1996)

Day of marriage May 7, 1935

• The temperature on May 7, 1935 was between 8.7 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • July 5 » The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
  • September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
  • October 10 » In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death March 12, 1996

• The temperature on March 12, 1996 was between -5.9 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
  • February 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  • April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
  • June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
  • September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
  • December 29 » Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b. 1902)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (b. 1924)