Database Van Broekhoven » Marinus Seijkens (1900-1986)

Day of marriage March 14, 1937

• The temperature on March 14, 1937 was between 0.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
  • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
  • June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
  • December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

Day of death April 26, 1986

• The temperature on April 26, 1986 was between 5.1 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
  • April 2 » Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
  • April 5 » Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
  • May 19 » The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
  • October 10 » A 5.7 M_w  San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
  • November 2 » U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• 1987 » John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922)