Database Van Broekhoven » Anna Catharina van Bokhoven (1909-1996)

Day of marriage May 19, 1938

• The temperature on May 19, 1938 was between 3.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Day of death October 23, 1996

• The temperature on October 23, 1996 was between 5.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
  • February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
  • March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
  • September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
  • October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 1997 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1998 » Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
• 1999 » Eric Reece, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Yokozuna, American wrestler (b. 1966)