Database Van Broekhoven » Nicolaas Johannes Bernardus van Rooij (1912-1990)

Day of marriage January 9, 1936

• The temperature on January 9, 1936 was between 7.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
  • April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  • July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
  • July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
  • August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
  • August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

Day of death October 21, 1990

• The temperature on October 21, 1990 was between 5.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
  • March 11 » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
  • April 12 » Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
  • September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
  • September 29 » Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
  • November 15 » The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Jean Image, Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Dany Chamoun, Lebanese engineer and politician (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Lorenc Antoni, Albanian composer, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Ante Ciliga, Croatian politician, writer and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)