Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Geertruida Breedvelt (1890-1985)

Day of marriage May 12, 1910

• The temperature on May 12, 1910 was between 7.9 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Day of death November 25, 1985

• The temperature on November 25, 1985 was between -1.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
  • March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
  • May 11 » Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
  • September 19 » A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
  • October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
  • December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Saleem Raza (Pakistani singer), Pakistani Christian playback singer (b. 1932)
• 1984 » Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Franz Hildebrandt, German pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)