Database Van Broekhoven » Maria de Rouw (1902-1983)

Day of marriage August 11, 1949

• The temperature on August 11, 1949 was between 9.9 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 9.3 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1 » United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
  • 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 21 » The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

Day of death April 15, 1983

• The temperature on April 15, 1983 was between 2.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 6 » The first United States Football League games are played.
  • April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
  • July 23 » Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
  • October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
  • November 7 » United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
  • December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)