Genealogy Petroucic » Elza Del Vecchio (1915-1987)

Day of marriage July 30, 1938

• The temperature on July 30, 1938 was between 11.1 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
  • May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

Day of death September 1, 1987

• The temperature on September 1, 1987 was between 9.3 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
  • February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
  • June 12 » The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
  • November 22 » Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
  • December 7 » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
  • December 8 » Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (b. 1957)
• 1986 » Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1989 » A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
• 1989 » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (b. 1894)