Database Van Broekhoven » Martina Petronella Abels (1912-2002)

Day of marriage November 23, 1935

• The average temperature on November 23, 1935 was 3.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
  • June 10 » Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
  • August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
  • September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
  • December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
  • December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.

Day of death May 4, 2002

• The temperature on May 4, 2002 was between 7.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
  • February 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
  • March 1 » The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800km (500mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
  • May 10 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4million in cash and diamonds.
  • September 4 » The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
  • October 7 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956)
• 2004 » David Reimer, Canadian victim of a botched circumcision and transgender reassignment surgery (b. 1965)
• 2005 » David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918)