Database Van Broekhoven » Gerardus Adrianus van Esch (1918-1984)

Day of marriage May 1, 1947

• The temperature on May 1, 1947 was between 5.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
  • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
  • November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

Day of death May 8, 1984

• The temperature on May 8, 1984 was between 3.8 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • May 17 » Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
  • June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
  • September 18 » Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
  • September 21 » Brunei joins the United Nations.
  • December 1 » NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (b. 1918)