Database Schaap » Maria Johanna Petronella Elbertse (1910-1998)

Day of marriage August 18, 1932

• The temperature on August 18, 1932 was between 15.9 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
  • May 4 » In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
  • May 28 » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
  • July 20 » In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.
  • November 8 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
  • November 24 » In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

Day of death November 22, 1998

• The temperature on November 22, 1998 was between -8.1 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
  • January 25 » A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
  • March 1 » Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
  • May 27 » Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
  • October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
  • November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 1998 » Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
• 2000 » Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)