Database Van Broekhoven » Petrus Godefridus Koolen (1896-1986)

Day of marriage May 30, 1923

• The temperature on May 30, 1923 was between 6.5 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • February 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
  • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
  • June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
  • July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

Day of death September 8, 1986

• The temperature on September 8, 1986 was between 5.7 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
  • April 1 » Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
  • April 14 » The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
  • April 26 » A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
  • May 2 » Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
  • October 5 » Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1990 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905)