Stambomen Quist » Willemina Quist (1911-1997)

Day of marriage September 16, 1938

• The temperature on September 16, 1938 was between 3.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • 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.

Day of death November 5, 1997

• The temperature on November 5, 1997 was between 5.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
  • July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
  • August 7 » Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
  • August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
  • October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.

Day of burial November 8, 1997

• The temperature on November 8, 1997 was between 8.0 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • July 2 » The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
  • July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
  • August 3 » Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
  • September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1909)
• 1997 » James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Peter Jackson, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster (b. 1964)
• 1999 » Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1999 » James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (b. 1931)