Database Van Broekhoven » Gerarda Verhoeven (1911-2001)

Day of marriage November 17, 1947

• The temperature on November 17, 1947 was between -1.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.

Day of death November 28, 2001

• The temperature on November 28, 2001 was between 3.8 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
  • May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
  • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
  • July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
  • August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
  • September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Kal Mann, American songwriter (b. 1917)
• 2001 » William Reid, Scottish lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Melih Cevdet Anday, Turkish poet and author (b. 1915)
• 2003 » Antonia Forest, English author (b. 1915)
• 2003 » Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2003 » Ted Bates, English footballer and manager (b. 1918)