Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Adrianus van der Meijden (1918-1997)

Day of marriage September 26, 1947

• The temperature on September 26, 1947 was between 10.9 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
  • July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
  • August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
  • November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
  • November 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.

Day of death November 1, 1997

• The temperature on November 1, 1997 was between -1.1 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
  • May 25 » A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
  • June 25 » The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
  • June 30 » The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
  • July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 » Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
• 1996 » J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
• 1999 » Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (b. 1954)
• 2000 » George Armstrong, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)