Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Wilhelmina Frederika Korbee (1903-1995)

Day of marriage July 27, 1932

• The temperature on July 27, 1932 was between 11.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • May 23 » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
  • May 29 » World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
  • July 30 » Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
  • September 23 » The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.
  • October 3 » Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Day of death December 27, 1995

• The temperature on December 27, 1995 was between -9.8 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • June 24 » Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
  • June 29 » Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
  • August 15 » In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
  • August 20 » The Firozabad rail disaster claimed 358 lives in Firozabad, India.
  • October 6 » The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
  • October 28 » The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (b. 1902)
• 1994 » Fanny Cradock, English author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1994 » J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1902)
• 1995 » Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (b. 1910)
• 1995 » Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (b. 1909)