FutureHistory » Alexander Henricus Pauwels (1885-1975)

Day of marriage April 22, 1921

• The temperature on April 22, 1921 was between 1.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

Day of death January 17, 1975

• The temperature on January 17, 1975 was between 3.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
  • March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • April 4 » Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • August 3 » A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
  • September 30 » The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
  • November 11 » Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1977 » Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
• 1981 » Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer and lawyer (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)