Database Van Broekhoven » Joanna Cornelia Antonia Leijtens (1912-1993)

Day of marriage July 4, 1936

• The temperature on July 4, 1936 was between 14.9 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
  • April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
  • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
  • July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Day of death May 12, 1993

• The temperature on May 12, 1993 was between 12.7 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (90%). 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 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.
  • January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
  • 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.
  • September 13 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
  • September 21 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
  • November 18 » In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
  • December 30 » Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 » Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b.1920)
• 1994 » Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
• 1994 » John Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Ștefan Kovács, Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920)