Database Van Broekhoven » Petronella "Nelly" van Oorschot (1904-1992)

Day of marriage April 16, 1936

• The temperature on April 16, 1936 was between 3.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
  • 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.
  • November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
  • December 7 » Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
  • December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.

Day of death October 6, 1992

• The temperature on October 6, 1992 was between 9.5 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 16.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
  • March 22 » USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
  • April 5 » Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
  • April 6 » The Bosnian War begins.
  • May 23 » Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
  • December 9 » American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1992 » Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (b. 1913)