Database Van Broekhoven » Helena Raaijmakers (1892-1979)

Day of marriage May 7, 1917

• The temperature on May 7, 1917 was between -0.7 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
  • October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
  • October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
  • December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.

Day of death July 20, 1979

• The temperature on July 20, 1979 was between 13.3 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
  • May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
  • July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
  • November 20 » Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
  • November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.
  • December 3 » In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Joseph Rochefort, American captain and cryptanalyst (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (b. 1939)
• 1980 » Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) potter (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Frank Reynolds, American soldier and journalist (b. 1923)