Database Van Broekhoven » Gerarda Wilhelmina Johanna Embregts (1924-1995)

Day of marriage April 20, 1948

• The temperature on April 20, 1948 was between 8.8 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
  • May 30 » A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
  • June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
  • June 26 » William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
  • July 5 » National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
  • July 31 » At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.

Day of death May 17, 1995

• The temperature on May 17, 1995 was between 7.7 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 10.0 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
  • February 22 » The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
  • June 29 » Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
  • September 22 » An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
  • September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
  • September 28 » Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1966)
• 1999 » Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian trumpet player and producer (b. 1949)
• 1999 » Lembit Oll, Estonian chess Grandmaster (b. 1966)
• 2000 » Donald Coggan, English archbishop (b. 1909)