Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmina Antonia Klaassen (1910-1998)

Day of marriage October 29, 1938

• The temperature on October 29, 1938 was between 0.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
  • 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.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

Day of death September 15, 1998

• The temperature on September 15, 1998 was between 11.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
  • February 28 » Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
  • May 5 » A Peruvian Air Force Boeing 737 operating for Occidental Petroleum crashes on approach to Alférez FAP Alfredo Vladimir Sara Bauer Airport in Andoas, Peru, killing 75 people.
  • May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
  • May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
  • December 6 » in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (b. 1937)
• 1995 » Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 1995 » Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
• 1997 » Bulldog Brower, American wrestler (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)
• 2001 » June Salter, Australian actress and author (b. 1932)