Stamboom Verbeek » Sylvia Beresford Austin (1911-1948)

Day of marriage August 4, 1931

• The temperature on August 4, 1931 was between 17.5 °C and 29.3 °C and averaged 22.3 °C. There was 15.9 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
  • March 11 » Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
  • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
  • October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

Day of death June 29, 1948

• The temperature on June 29, 1948 was between 7.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
  • May 9 » Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
  • June 7 » Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
  • June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
  • October 29 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; after, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
  • October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and missionary (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Paul Klee, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Paul Troje, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)
• 1955 » Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (b. 1881)