Database Van Broekhoven » Henricus Alphonsus Horvers (1921-2013)

Day of marriage April 19, 1949

• The temperature on April 19, 1949 was between 6.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
  • June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
  • October 7 » The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
  • October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
  • November 3 » Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.
  • December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

Day of death January 6, 2013

• The temperature on January 6, 2013 was between 6.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 8 » A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
  • February 10 » Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
  • July 16 » As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
  • August 16 » The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing.
  • August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
  • November 21 » Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Bob Holness, South African-English radio and television host (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Spike Pola, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1914)
• 2013 » Cho Sung-min, South Korean baseball player (b. 1973)
• 2013 » Gerard Helders, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1905)
• 2013 » Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 » Ruth Carter Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (b. 1923)