Database Van Broekhoven » Elisabeth Adriana Timmermans (1905-1990)

Day of marriage May 5, 1937

• The temperature on May 5, 1937 was between 4.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
  • June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
  • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
  • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
  • 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 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Day of death December 31, 1990

• The temperature on December 31, 1990 was between 1.2 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 3 » United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
  • January 4 » In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
  • March 18 » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
  • June 2 » The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
  • June 13 » First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
  • July 16 » The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Jerry Turner, American journalist (b. 1929)
• 1988 » Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
• 1990 » George Allen, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1990 » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1993 » Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)