Database Van Broekhoven » Maria van Mierlo (1916-2001)

Day of marriage November 22, 1947

• The temperature on November 22, 1947 was between 12.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
  • July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

Day of death August 19, 2001

• The temperature on August 19, 2001 was between 16.8 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
  • February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
  • May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
  • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
  • September 12 » Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
  • December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 » Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)