Stambos van Wijk-Soomers » Cornelis Johannes van Lingen (1912-1951)

Day of marriage May 8, 1935

• The temperature on May 8, 1935 was between 7.0 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
  • March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
  • April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
  • July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
  • September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
  • October 10 » In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.

Day of death November 27, 1951

• The temperature on November 27, 1951 was between 2.0 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
  • February 9 » Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea
  • April 11 » The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
  • July 4 » William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
  • November 10 » With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
  • December 31 » Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and politician (b. 1916)
• 1944 » Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1955 » Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (b. 1892)