Database Van Broekhoven » Jacobus Adrianus Joannes Marcelis van Steen (1920-1989)

Day of marriage January 8, 1948

• The temperature on January 8, 1948 was between 2.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • January 30 » British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
  • July 12 » Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
  • August 25 » The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
  • September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
  • December 10 » The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
  • December 11 » Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.

Day of death November 13, 1989

• The temperature on November 13, 1989 was between -0.2 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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.
  • January 30 » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
  • 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.
  • April 2 » ASUS corporation is founded.
  • 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).
  • December 27 » The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
  • December 29 » The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Dorothea Krook-Gilead, Latvian-South African author, translator and scholar (b. 1920)
• 1989 » Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
• 1989 » Rohana Wijeweera, Sri Lankan rebel and politician (b. 1943)
• 1989 » Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)