Database Van Broekhoven » Mechtilda Wilhelmina Maria van Rooij (1929-1995)

Day of marriage June 22, 1959

• The temperature on June 22, 1959 was between 15.3 °C and 28.6 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.
  • January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
  • August 7 » Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • August 14 » Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
  • September 18 » Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
  • October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.

Day of death January 17, 1995

• The temperature on January 17, 1995 was between 1.0 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • May 24 » While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
  • July 9 » The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
  • July 23 » Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
  • October 9 » An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
  • November 12 » Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1996 » Sylvia Lawler, English geneticist (b. 1922))
• 1997 » Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)