Purvis Farquhar » Leonard van der Wilk (1895-1960)

Day of marriage May 20, 1919

• The temperature on May 20, 1919 was between 3.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
  • February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • June 28 » The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
  • September 18 » Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
  • October 17 » RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.

Day of death August 27, 1960

• The temperature on August 27, 1960 was between 12.5 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
  • August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
  • August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
  • November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
  • November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
  • December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)