Database Van Broekhoven » Maria van Lieshout (1902-1998)

Day of marriage May 15, 1930

• The temperature on May 15, 1930 was between 2.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
  • March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
  • April 2 » After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
  • June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
  • October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
  • December 16 » Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana.

Day of death April 20, 1998

• The temperature on April 20, 1998 was between 7.3 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 25 » A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
  • February 4 » The 5.9 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
  • March 24 » Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
  • April 6 » Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
  • May 28 » Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
  • September 2 » The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Rick Rude, American wrestler (b. 1958)
• 1999 » Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre:
• 2001 » Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
• 2002 » Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)