Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Maria Anna Aleida Heijne (1899-1968)

Day of marriage August 15, 1918

• The temperature on August 15, 1918 was between 7.9 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
  • January 27 » Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
  • February 25 » German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
  • March 31 » Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
  • June 26 » World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
  • December 17 » Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Day of death May 19, 1968

• The temperature on May 19, 1968 was between 3.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
  • February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
  • March 17 » As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
  • July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
  • September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
  • November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)
• 1969 » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)