Database Van Broekhoven » Gerardus Johannes van den Broeck (1921-2005)

Day of marriage October 30, 1951

• The temperature on October 30, 1951 was between 6.7 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • May 13 » The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
  • May 14 » Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
  • June 23 » The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
  • July 26 » Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
  • October 20 » The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Day of death February 28, 2005

• The temperature on February 28, 2005 was between -9.2 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (92%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 15 » ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
  • February 14 » In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's motorcade drives through the city.
  • August 15 » The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
  • September 12 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
  • December 5 » The 6.8 M_w  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
  • December 7 » Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian sergeant (b. 1982)
• 2004 » Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)