Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Willem Greevink (1906-1978)

Day of marriage April 21, 1934

• The temperature on April 21, 1934 was between 1.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (51%). 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
  • February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
  • March 26 » The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
  • May 23 » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
  • August 2 » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
  • December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Day of death November 15, 1978

• The temperature on November 15, 1978 was between 5.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • March 28 » The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
  • May 1 » Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
  • May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
  • June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
  • July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
  • August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)
• 1978 » Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
• 1981 » Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1981 » Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
• 1981 » Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)