Database Van Broekhoven » Hendrika Kerkhof (1915-1993)

Day of marriage June 9, 1938

• The temperature on June 9, 1938 was between 9.3 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Day of death December 4, 1993

• The temperature on December 4, 1993 was between 3.2 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • January 7 » Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
  • April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
  • May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
  • May 24 » Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
  • October 7 » The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Arnold Lobel, American author and illustrator (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1988 » Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (b. 1899)
• 1992 » Henry Clausen, American lawyer and author (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1940)
• 1993 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903)