Database Van Broekhoven » Dina Willemina Buckens (1901-1994)

Day of marriage June 16, 1928

• The temperature on June 16, 1928 was between 6.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

Day of death March 9, 1994

• The temperature on March 9, 1994 was between 6.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • April 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
  • May 2 » A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
  • October 12 » The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
  • October 29 » Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
  • November 7 » WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
  • December 31 » The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1993 » C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 » Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)