Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Leonarda van Engelen (1912-1991)

Day of marriage June 25, 1946

• The temperature on June 25, 1946 was between 10.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
  • February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
  • May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
  • September 6 » United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
  • September 24 » The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
  • October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

Day of death April 25, 1991

• The temperature on April 25, 1991 was between 1.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • February 20 » In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
  • April 29 » A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
  • May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
  • August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
  • August 30 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
  • October 20 » A 6.8 M_w earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1990 » Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (b. 1923)
• 1992 » Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
• 1995 » Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
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