Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmina Petronella Theresia van Loon (1914-1999)

Day of marriage May 13, 1936

• The temperature on May 13, 1936 was between 7.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
  • March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
  • August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
  • September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
  • September 9 » The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRPAfonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
  • December 13 » An annular solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New Zealand on December 14th (Monday), and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on December 13th (Sunday).

Day of death June 23, 1999

• The temperature on June 23, 1999 was between 5.1 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 23 » Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
  • April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
  • May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
  • May 25 » The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and rugby player (b. 1921)
• 1997 » Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936)
• 1998 » Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972)
• 2002 » Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)