Database Van Broekhoven » Louis Franciscus van Brunschot (1902-1985)

Day of marriage June 3, 1931

• The temperature on June 3, 1931 was between 7.6 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
  • March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
  • March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

Day of death July 7, 1985

• The temperature on July 7, 1985 was between 7.8 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
  • May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
  • September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
  • October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
  • November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
  • November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
• 1984 » George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)
• 1990 » Cazuza, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1958)