Database Van Broekhoven » Anna Cornelia Waijers (1907-1984)

Day of marriage January 12, 1927

• The temperature on January 12, 1927 was between 4.0 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

Day of death May 26, 1984

• The temperature on May 26, 1984 was between 8.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
  • July 17 » The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
  • July 18 » McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
  • August 4 » The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
  • October 16 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 » George Brent, Irish-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)