Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Huberta Dekkers (1915-1997)

Day of marriage May 21, 1949

• The temperature on May 21, 1949 was between 5.8 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 20 » Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
  • August 10 » An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.
  • October 1 » The People's Republic of China is established.
  • November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.

Day of death March 20, 1997

• The temperature on March 20, 1997 was between 1.9 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
  • May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
  • July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
  • September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2​⁄₂ billion watched around the world on television.
  • December 3 » In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
• 1997 » V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)
• 1999 » Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
• 2001 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)