Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Klaas Visser (1911-1992)

Day of marriage April 16, 1932

• The temperature on April 16, 1932 was between 4.8 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
  • May 12 » Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
  • May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • June 17 » Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
  • September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
  • December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

Day of death November 30, 1992

• The temperature on November 30, 1992 was between 10.4 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Space Shuttle program: the space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
  • April 2 » Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • May 7 » Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
  • July 10 » In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
  • July 23 » Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
  • September 12 » Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
• 1990 » Fritz Eichenberg, German-American illustrator and arts educator (b. 1901)
• 1992 » Peter Blume, American painter and sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1993 » David Houston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Guy Debord, French theorist and author (b. 1931)
• 1994 » Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)