Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Cornelia Adriana "Corrie" van der Slot (1928-1988)

Day of marriage October 11, 1955

• The temperature on October 11, 1955 was between 6.2 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
  • June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
  • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
  • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
  • December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

Day of death November 19, 1988

• The temperature on November 19, 1988 was between 3.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
  • July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
  • August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
  • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
  • November 16 » In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
• 1988 » Peggy Parish, American author (b. 1927)
• 1989 » Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1990 » Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1900)