Database Van Broekhoven » Josephina Maria Gijsberdina Spieringhs (1914-1998)

Day of marriage July 8, 1938

• The temperature on July 8, 1938 was between 10.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
  • 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.
  • May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
  • October 31 » Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.

Day of death October 26, 1998

• The temperature on October 26, 1998 was between 4.7 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
  • January 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
  • February 28 » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
  • March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
  • June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • August 28 » Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician and academic (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American author and educator (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
• 2001 » Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish scholar and academic (b. 1911)