Database Van Broekhoven » Therese Marie Sophie Cornips (1926-2016)

Day of marriage March 28, 1947

• The temperature on March 28, 1947 was between 7.2 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
  • November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
  • November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
  • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Day of death March 4, 2016

• The temperature on March 4, 2016 was between -2.5 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • February 10 » South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
  • February 11 » A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
  • April 10 » The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
  • June 12 » Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
  • September 19 » In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
  • December 22 » A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2015 » Dušan Bilandžić, Croatian historian and politician (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Ray Hatton, English-American runner, author, and academic (b. 1932)
• 2016 » Bud Collins, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929)
• 2016 » P. A. Sangma, Indian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1947)
• 2016 » Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945)
• 2016 » Zhou Xiaoyan, Chinese soprano and educator (b. 1917)