Descendants Elschot » Theodora Sophia Elschot (1912-1990)

Day of marriage May 15, 1942

• The temperature on May 15, 1942 was between 5.9 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 23 » World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
  • May 22 » Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
  • June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
  • July 6 » Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • July 18 » World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
  • August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.

Day of death January 11, 1990

• The temperature on January 11, 1990 was between 4.6 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • June 12 » Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
  • July 2 » In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
  • July 27 » The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • November 5 » Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
  • December 1 » Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Ray Moore, English radio host (b. 1942)
• 1990 » Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)