Database Van Broekhoven » Theodorus van Rooijen (1892-1966)

Day of marriage April 3, 1918

• The temperature on April 3, 1918 was between 2.6 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
  • January 26 » Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
  • February 21 » The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • June 10 » The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMSSzent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
  • July 17 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
  • November 21 » The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.

Day of death February 24, 1966

• The temperature on February 24, 1966 was between 4.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
  • July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
  • July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
  • August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
  • October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (b.1891)