Database Van Broekhoven » Henricus Liberius Graauwmans (1922-1993)

Day of marriage December 22, 1947

• The temperature on December 22, 1947 was between 6.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
  • June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.

Day of death November 21, 1993

• The temperature on November 21, 1993 was between -5.7 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • March 22 » The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
  • July 22 » Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
  • July 26 » Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
  • August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
  • November 17 » In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Sonny Werblin, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Kaysone Phomvihane, Laotian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Laos (b. 1920)
• 1992 » Ricky Williams, American singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1956)
• 1993 » Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1899)
• 1995 » Peter Grant, English actor and manager (b. 1935)