Database Van Broekhoven » Elisabeth van Dien (1903-1973)

Day of marriage October 6, 1926

• The temperature on October 6, 1926 was between 8.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (79%). 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
  • August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
  • November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

Day of death November 8, 1973

• The temperature on November 8, 1973 was between 7.1 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • May 18 » Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
  • July 10 » The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
  • August 23 » A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
  • November 3 » Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
  • December 6 » The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
• 1975 » Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)