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1996 Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997

1996 Ruth Holland, journalist, dies at 54

1996 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)

1996 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90

1995 Holland's debut in English domestic comp (vs. Northants, NatWest)

1994 Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83

1993 Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught

1993 John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65

1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe

1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland

1988 Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60

1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland

1985 Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts

1984 Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG

1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)

1980 Jools Holland quits Squeeze

1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland

1978 Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires

1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland

1977 Bas Zuiderent, cricketer for Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup

1974 Petra Kamstra, born in Rotterdam, Holland, tennis star, 1995 Surabaya doubles

1973 Darius Holland, NFL defensive tackle, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31

1972 Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler, Somerset and Holland

1972 Tara Dawn Holland, Overland Park Kansas, Miss America 1997

1971 Jonathan "Adam" Holland, Philadelphia, rower 1996 Olympics

1970 Karin van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate, Sept, 1989

1970 Mirjam van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate, Sept, 1989

1970 Klaas Van Noortwijk, cricketer, Holland batsman 1996 World Cup

1970 Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate, Jun, 1991

1969 Candy Dulfer, Amsterdam Holland, saxophonist, Lily Was Here

1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes

1969 Marcel Schewe, cricketer, Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup

1968 Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman, Holland 1996 World Cup

1968 Tim De Leede, cricketer, Holland batsman 1996 World Cup

1967 Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air

1965 Robert Holland, CFL defensive back for the BC Lions

1963 Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler, Glamorgan and Holland

1962 Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress, Devil in the Flesh

1962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)

1961 Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67

1959 Mary Holland, born in San Diego, California, WPVA volleyballer

1956 Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary

1955 Julian Holland, rocker, Squeeze

1951 Laurel Masse, Holland, Michigan, jazz singer, Manhattan Transfer-Operator

1948 Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa

1948 Nolan Clarke, cricketer, Barbados bat 1970-77, later Holland stalwart

1947 Richard Dreyfuss, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Jaws, Nuts, Mr. Holland's Opus

1947 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69

1946 Bob Holland, cricketer, Australian leg-spinner at age 38

1946 Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)

1945 Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist, Holland's secret service

1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)

1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"

1944 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland

1944 Ard Schenk, Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater, Olympics gold 1972

1944 Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker, Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law

1944 Kristina Holland, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father

1944 Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet, Venus in Holland

1943 Vegetables and fruit rationed in Holland

1943 Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39

1943 Lou Jansen and Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland

1943 Holland Taylor, Philadelphia, actress, Bossom Buddies, Camilla-Naked Truth

1942 Potatoes rationed in Holland

1942 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp

1942 Sjoukje Dijkstra, born in Holland, figure skater 1964 Olympic gold

1942 Ruth Holland, journalist

1942 Cigarettes and candy rationed in Holland

1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland

1941 Jam rationed in Holland

1941 Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor, Houston Opera-1976

1941 Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle

1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis

1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland

1941 Milk rationed in Holland

1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies

1941 Brian Holland, U.S. pianist/producer, Holland/Dozier/Holland

1940 Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ, Olympics gold 1972

1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland

1940 Bread and flour rationed in Holland

1940 Coffee and tea rationed in Holland

1939 Eddie Holland, U.S. singer and songwriter, Jamie, Leaving Here

1939 Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet, Hoepla/Holland's Hole

1938 Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Holland, speed skater, world champ

1938 Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland

1938 Geoffrey Holland, civil servant

1936 Robert Wolders, Rotterdam Holland, actor, Erik Hunter-Laredo

1934 Antonius Geesink, Holland, judo 1964 Olympic gold

1933 Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano, Ilya-Idomeneo

1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees

1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland

1930 Rudolf Hapke, historian (Entstehung Holland Wirtschaft), dies at 45

1929 Johan N Block, aviation pioneer, Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland

1927 NY-New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens

1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens

1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland

1925 Communist Party of Holland splits

1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland

1920 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City

1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH

1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Holland, 100m/200m dash, hurdler, Olym-gold-1948

1917 3 British warships come close to Holland

1917 Utrecht soccer team Holland forms

1914 John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies

1914 Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer, Holland's Glory

1913 Carolina Gisolf, Holland, high jumper 1928 Olympics silver

1910 Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter, Holland Festival

1908 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland

1907 Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwijk Holland, conductor, Melbourne 1967-71

1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)

1906 Franciscus Hin, Holland, yachtsman, Olympics gold 1920

1905 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser

1905 Kuyper government forms in Holland

1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School

1902 Antonia Brico, born in Rotterdam, Holland, conductor/pianist, Antonia

1898 Johannes Hin, Holland, yachtsman, Olympics gold 1920

1895 Hans Fischbock, Austria, Finance minister, Nazi-occupied Holland

1894 Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer, 3 Songs for Chinese

1893 Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ, 1949-57

1891 Operations begin at Philips and Co in Holland

1891 Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer, Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium

1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, born in Holland, aircraft pioneer, Spider

1884 Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist, Nobel 1936

1878 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer

1872 Piet Mondriaan, born in Holland, abstract painter, Broadway Boogie Woogie

1870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar, Verzen

1869 Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, Holland Tooneelgezelschap

1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies

1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902

1848 Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77

1840 John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building

1838 Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911

1827 Jan David Holland, composer, dies at 81

1824 Great North Holland Canal opens

1824 Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79

1823 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens

1819 Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland, dies at 55

1819 Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist, History of Holland

1809 Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid

1808 Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain

1808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain

1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland

1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66

1791 Nikolaj A. Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter, Account about Holland

1780 Britain declares war on Holland

1774 Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68

1771 Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor, South Holland

1764 Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland

1749 Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland

1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht

1746 Jan David Holland, composer

1744 Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland

1735 States of Holland forbid Free Masonry

1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51

1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna

1730 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"

1722 Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor, Amsterdam

1705 Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician, Chiswick

1693 1st sea battle of Lagos: England and Holland vs France

1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland

1684 Justus van Effen, writer/founder, Holland Spectator

1683 English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland

1682 English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland

1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer

1672 Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand

1672 States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void

1667 State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict

1661 Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53

1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders

1660 Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82

1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland

1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland

1646 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35

1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx

1634 Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland, 1672-88

1633 Isabella of Austria, infante of Spain/governess in Holland, dies at 67

1632 Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter, Procuress, Astronomer

1629 Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer, discovered Saturn's rings

1625 Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland

1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand

1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland

1594 Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62

1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft

1585 Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe

1583 Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law

1583 Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)

1583 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland and Flanders

1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange

1574 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies

1573 Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland

1572 Willem van Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht

1570 Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies

1559 Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht

1558 Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43

1549 Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies

1544 Rene van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25

1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland

1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"

1539 Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies

1538 Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg and Dietz, viceroy of Holland, dies

1532 Zealand/South Holland flooded

1516 John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78

1514 Maximilian of Burgundy, viceroy of Holland

1483 Hendrik van Nassau-Dillenburg en Dietz, gov/viceroy of Holland

1482 Maria, duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25

1466 Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author, In Praise of Folly

1456 Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies

1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge

1441 Holland and Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty

1438 John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland

1436 Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35

1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good

1425 Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke, dies

1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned

1421 Holland/Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed

1421 Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown

1417 Walraven I van Brederode, viceroy of Holland, dies

1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen

1410 John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia

1381 John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies

1362 Machteld, countess of Holland, dies

1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand

1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand

1345 Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27

1337 Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49

1304 Willem III becomes earl of Holland

1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg

1299 Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15

1296 Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland, dies

1258 Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies

1256 Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22

1248 Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor

1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor

1234 Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament

1222 Willem I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies

1210 Floris IV, Count of Holland

1203 Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies

1190 Floris III, Count of Holland, dies

1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods

1157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies

1144 Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies

1132 Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered

1122 Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies

1121 Dirk VI becomes count of Holland

1091 Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland

1091 Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies

1061 Floris I, count of Holland, dies

1049 Derrick IV, Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle

1039 Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies

988 Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland



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