Database Van Broekhoven » Adriana Cornelia van Dijk (1908-1998)

Day of marriage September 30, 1931

• The temperature on September 30, 1931 was between 4.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 11 » Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
  • March 19 » Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.

Day of death June 20, 1998

• The temperature on June 20, 1998 was between 12.6 °C and 28.0 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 16 » China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
  • March 1 » Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
  • 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.
  • May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
  • August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
  • August 17 » Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.

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)