Database Van Broekhoven » Jacobus Maria Cornelis van Berkel (1920-1999)

Day of marriage August 13, 1946

• The temperature on August 13, 1946 was between 11.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • March 19 » French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
  • April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
  • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • July 5 » Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
  • September 2 » The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.

Day of death March 11, 1999

• The temperature on March 11, 1999 was between -3.4 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
  • May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
  • July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
  • July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
  • October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
  • November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress and singer (b. 1945)
• 1996 » Vince Edwards, American actor and director (b. 1928)
• 1999 » Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (b. 1906)
• 2002 » James Tobin, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)