Database Van Broekhoven » Theodorus Petrus Maria Wouters (1924-1995)

Day of marriage August 11, 1951

• The temperature on August 11, 1951 was between 9.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • April 22 » Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
  • May 3 » The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
  • May 13 » The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
  • May 16 » The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
  • July 20 » King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
  • September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

Day of death May 14, 1995

• The temperature on May 14, 1995 was between 1.7 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 26 » The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
  • June 29 » The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
  • September 19 » The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
  • September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
  • October 27 » Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
  • November 22 » Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1908)
• 1994 » Cihat Arman, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1915)
• 1994 » W. Graham Claytor Jr., American businessman, lieutenant, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (b. 1925)
• 1997 » Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (b. 1934)