Database Van Broekhoven » Petrus Johannes Cornelis Huijbregts (1917-1997)

Day of marriage September 11, 1948

• The temperature on September 11, 1948 was between 14.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • May 18 » The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
  • May 20 » Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
  • May 28 » Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
  • June 22 » King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
  • June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
  • July 5 » National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.

Day of death January 8, 1997

• The temperature on January 8, 1997 was between -8.9 °C and -6.3 °C and averaged -7.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
  • June 12 » Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
  • June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
  • July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
  • December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1996 » François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)
• 1997 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)