Database Van Broekhoven » Theodora van Erp (1899-1965)

Day of marriage May 10, 1927

• The temperature on May 10, 1927 was between 4.7 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

Day of death August 19, 1965

• The temperature on August 19, 1965 was between 11.1 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • February 18 » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • March 24 » Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
  • June 7 » The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
  • September 7 » Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
  • September 22 » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)