Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmina Louisa van de Wiel (1907-1997)

Day of marriage July 16, 1935

• The temperature on July 16, 1935 was between 11.2 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
  • May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
  • September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
  • December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death June 20, 1997

• The temperature on June 20, 1997 was between 10.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The 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 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • March 9 » Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
  • June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
  • July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
  • December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 1997 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
• 2002 » Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)