Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Petrus Antonius van Schendel (1915-2000)

Day of marriage May 4, 1949

• The temperature on May 4, 1949 was between 8.9 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
  • April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • September 17 » The Canadian steamship SSNoronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
  • October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
  • November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

Day of death June 21, 2000

• The temperature on June 21, 2000 was between 16.2 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  • July 25 » Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
  • November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
  • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Kami, Japanese drummer (b. 1973)
• 2000 » Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Carroll O'Connor, American actor and producer (b. 1924)
• 2001 » John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (b. 1942)