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Personal data Henry van Brookhoven 


Household of Henry van Brookhoven

He is married to Cornelia Tissing.

They got married in the year 1939 at Mahwah, New Jersey, he was 24 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday February 1, 1914

  • The temperature on February 1, 1914 was between 2.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
    • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
    • August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
    • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
    • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
    • December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.

Day of death December 1, 1997

  • The temperature on December 1, 1997 was between -0.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
    • April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
    • 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 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
    • September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2​⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
    • October 12 » The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
    • December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.


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