Database Van Broekhoven » Petrus Johannes Antonius van Grootel (1920-1989)

Day of marriage May 12, 1947

• The temperature on May 12, 1947 was between 13.3 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
  • April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
  • August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Day of death November 26, 1989

• The temperature on November 26, 1989 was between 1.5 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • February 24 » United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
  • March 7 » Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
  • March 24 » In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000m) of crude oil after running aground.
  • April 1 » Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
  • October 3 » A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
  • December 28 » A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » J. P. Guilford, American psychologist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1987 » Peter Hujar, American photographer (b. 1934)
• 1987 » Thomas George Lanphier, Jr., American colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician, President of Comoros (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Bob Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931)
• 1991 » Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908)