Database Van Broekhoven » Antonius Alanus Denissen (1916-1986)

Day of marriage November 11, 1938

• The temperature on November 11, 1938 was between 4.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

Day of death January 6, 1986

• The temperature on January 6, 1986 was between -1.3 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 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 Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
  • April 28 » High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
  • June 4 » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
  • October 3 » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
  • October 27 » The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
  • November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)