Family tree Braun » Johanna Maria den Blanken (1908-2000)

Day of marriage August 18, 1937

• The temperature on August 18, 1937 was between 13.1 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
  • July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
  • September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
  • December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
  • December 22 » The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

Day of death May 4, 2000

• The temperature on May 4, 2000 was between 10.4 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  • October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
  • October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
  • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956)
• 2004 » David Reimer, Canadian victim of a botched circumcision and transgender reassignment surgery (b. 1965)
• 2005 » David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)