Database Van Broekhoven » Alida Josina Gijsbertha Theodora van den Berg (1899-1953)

Day of marriage April 26, 1922

• The temperature on April 26, 1922 was between 2.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
  • April 3 » Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • June 29 » France grants 1km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
  • July 11 » The Hollywood Bowl opens.
  • August 2 » A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
  • December 16 » President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

Day of death November 8, 1953

• The temperature on November 8, 1953 was between 8.5 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
  • May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
  • June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
  • November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
  • December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
  • December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
• 1953 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1953 » John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)
• 1959 » Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)