Database Van Broekhoven » Elisabeth Catharina Petronella de Bresser (1921-2015)

Day of marriage May 7, 1953

• The temperature on May 7, 1953 was between 2.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
  • May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
  • June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
  • July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
  • September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
  • December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

Day of death March 21, 2015

• The temperature on March 21, 2015 was between 3.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
  • June 27 » Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
  • October 1 » Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
  • November 12 » Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.
  • November 24 » A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria-Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
  • December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

Source: Wikipedia

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