Database Van Broekhoven » Adriana Maria Theresia Robbe (1915-1993)

Day of marriage October 7, 1938

• The temperature on October 7, 1938 was between 7.4 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 18.7 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Day of death January 17, 1993

• The temperature on January 17, 1993 was between 5.1 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • February 8 » General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
  • April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
  • August 20 » After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
  • August 21 » NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
  • August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Frank Pullen, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915)
• 1994 » Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)