Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Gerrit Mulder (1896-1984)

Day of marriage August 21, 1920

• The temperature on August 21, 1920 was between 8.9 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 9 » Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
  • February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
  • May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
  • May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
  • September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
  • September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

Day of death October 20, 1984

• The temperature on October 20, 1984 was between 8.4 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • February 3 » John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
  • February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
  • April 19 » Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
  • June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
  • November 1 » After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
  • 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

• 1983 » Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Sheila Scott, English pilot and author (b. 1922)