FutureHistory » Joannes Franciscus Vermeiren (1887-1970)

Day of marriage May 3, 1912

• The temperature on May 3, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Day of death December 9, 1970

• The temperature on December 9, 1970 was between 0.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • July 3 » The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
  • November 9 » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
  • November 12 » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
  • November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
  • December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
• 1971 » Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams, Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (b. 1886)