Database Van Broekhoven » Antonius Philippus van Broekhoven (1904-1985)

Day of marriage January 31, 1929

• The temperature on January 31, 1929 was between -1.1 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• 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 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
  • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
  • June 7 » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
  • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

Day of death July 19, 1985

• The temperature on July 19, 1985 was between 12.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
  • March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
  • May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
  • October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
  • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
  • December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
• 1984 » Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1913)