Database Van Broekhoven » Christiaan Soeters (1921-1982)

Day of marriage September 15, 1949

• The temperature on September 15, 1949 was between 14.5 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
  • May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
  • December 29 » KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

Day of death May 29, 1982

• The temperature on May 29, 1982 was between 5.3 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1982: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
  • March 22 » NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
  • May 21 » Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
  • July 4 » Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.
  • July 19 » In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
  • August 11 » A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Ba Maw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1893)
• 1979 » John H. Wood Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)
• 1982 » Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
• 1983 » Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)