Database Van Broekhoven » Josephus Hubertus Ekels (1902-1993)

Day of marriage October 22, 1927

• The temperature on October 22, 1927 was between 4.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 13.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
  • April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
  • May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
  • December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death November 18, 1993

• The temperature on November 18, 1993 was between -3.0 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
  • April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
  • May 18 » Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
  • June 12 » An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
  • July 25 » Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
  • September 13 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (b. 1934)
• 1991 » Gustáv Husák, Slovak lawyer and politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra) (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Peter Ledger, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1945)
• 1995 » Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (b. 1936)