Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmina Mutsaers (1897-1988)

Day of marriage May 2, 1932

• The temperature on May 2, 1932 was between 9.3 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
  • May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
  • May 20 » Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
  • June 24 » A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
  • September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
  • October 15 » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

Day of death October 11, 1988

• The temperature on October 11, 1988 was between 2.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
  • March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
  • April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
  • May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
  • October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
  • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian administrator and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Benno Schotz, Scottish sculptor and engineer (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Norm Cash, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 1988 » Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 » M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)