Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Jan Hendrik van Dam (1924-1982)

Day of marriage March 15, 1947

• The temperature on March 15, 1947 was between -3.9 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 10 » The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
  • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
  • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Day of death August 26, 1982

• The temperature on August 26, 1982 was between 9.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1982: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 22 » NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
  • April 17 » Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
  • April 25 » Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
  • May 24 » Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
  • December 2 » At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
  • December 7 » In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)