Database Van Broekhoven » Elisabeth Beij (1921-2014)

Day of marriage July 17, 1946

• The temperature on July 17, 1946 was between 9.1 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
  • March 21 » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
  • April 18 » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
  • July 5 » Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
  • October 13 » France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
  • December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

Day of death February 22, 2014

• The temperature on February 22, 2014 was between 4.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
  • August 10 » Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
  • September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
  • October 1 » A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
  • October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
  • October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
• 2013 » Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
• 2014 » Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2014 » Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (b. 1940)