Database Van Broekhoven » Karel van Bakel (1919-1990)

Day of marriage May 20, 1949

• The temperature on May 20, 1949 was between 7.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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)
• 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 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
  • April 23 » Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • August 24 » The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
  • August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
  • October 7 » The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

Day of death July 30, 1990

• The temperature on July 30, 1990 was between 11.7 °C and 28.9 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
  • March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
  • April 11 » Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
  • July 21 » Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
  • October 3 » The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • November 16 » Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Lane Frost, American professional bull rider (b. 1963)
• 1990 » Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (b. 1937)
• 1992 » Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)