Database Van Broekhoven » Bartholomeus Adrianus Wilhelmus Pols (1907-1989)

Day of marriage February 19, 1936

• The temperature on February 19, 1936 was between 4.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (26%). 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • April 15 » First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
  • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
  • May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
  • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
  • September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

Day of death August 29, 1989

• The temperature on August 29, 1989 was between 10.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • February 24 » United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
  • May 30 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
  • June 4 » The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 1,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
  • November 22 » In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
  • November 28 » Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
  • December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Archie Campbell, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Peter Scott, English explorer and painter (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Libero Grassi, Italian businessman (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)