Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Jantje Posthuma (1905-1984)

Day of marriage July 12, 1924

• The temperature on July 12, 1924 was between 15.7 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 22.8 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
  • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

Day of death February 22, 1984

• The temperature on February 22, 1984 was between 0.5 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 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 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • May 6 » One hundred three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
  • May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
  • May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
  • September 26 » The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997.
  • November 14 » Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
  • December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
• 1985 » Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
• 1986 » John Donnelly, Australian rugby league player (b. 1955)