Database Van Broekhoven » Francisca Maria van Bommel (1923-2005)

Day of marriage April 21, 1950

• The temperature on April 21, 1950 was between 4.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 year 1950: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
  • August 29 » Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
  • September 15 » Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
  • October 19 » Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
  • November 8 » Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
  • November 19 » US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.

Day of death March 27, 2005

• The temperature on March 27, 2005 was between 8.1 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 8 » The nuclear sub USSSan Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
  • March 3 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
  • May 16 » Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
  • July 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • August 15 » The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
  • August 31 » The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Robert Merle, French author (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 » Neil Williams, English cricketer (b. 1962)
• 2006 » Rudolf Vrba, Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (b. 1924)
• 2006 » Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (b. 1921)