Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Maria de Laat (1905-1993)

Day of marriage August 9, 1938

• The temperature on August 9, 1938 was between 15.8 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). 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.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
  • December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

Day of death October 7, 1993

• The temperature on October 7, 1993 was between 9.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
  • May 10 » In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
  • June 1 » Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
  • July 26 » Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
  • August 7 » Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • September 21 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)
• 1993 » Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)