Database Van Broekhoven » Martinus Henricus Josephus de Kok (1904-1989)

Day of marriage January 15, 1936

• The temperature on January 15, 1936 was between -1.6 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
  • June 30 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
  • July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • August 24 » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • December 13 » An annular solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New Zealand on December 14th (Monday), and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on December 13th (Sunday).

Day of death March 17, 1989

• The temperature on March 17, 1989 was between -0.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 17.2 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • June 4 » Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
  • June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
  • July 27 » While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a DC-10 in less than two weeks, the first being United Airlines Flight 232.
  • August 20 » The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
  • December 3 » Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
  • December 6 » The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)