Database Van Broekhoven » Adrianus Antonius Maria de Brouwer (1918-2009)

Day of marriage May 17, 1949

• The temperature on May 17, 1949 was between 9.7 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
  • January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
  • July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
  • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.

Day of death January 4, 2009

• The temperature on January 4, 2009 was between 1.3 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 10.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • April 12 » Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
  • June 19 » Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
  • October 3 » Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.
  • December 8 » Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
  • December 17 » MVDanny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
  • December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Helen Hill, American director and producer (b. 1970)
• 2007 » Steve Krantz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
• 2008 » Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1932)
• 2009 » Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright, and author (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer (b. 1916)