Today in History for Year 1935

Months in Year 1935: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 292

Jan 1st - 1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl
Jan 1st - Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
Jan 1st - Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
Jan 1st - Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
Jan 2nd - Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
Jan 4th - Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
Jan 4th - Ft Jefferson National Monument, Fla established
Jan 7th - Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
Jan 8th - Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
Jan 11th - Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course)
Jan 13th - Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
Jan 14th - Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
Jan 15th - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
Jan 15th - Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
Jan 19th - KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
Jan 19th - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
Jan 21st - 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)
Jan 21st - WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
Jan 21st - Wilderness Society forms
Jan 24th - 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
Jan 28th - Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion
Poet Ezra Pound Jan 30th - Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
Feb 1st - 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
Feb 1st - James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
Feb 2nd - Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc)
Feb 2nd - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
Feb 6th - "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
Feb 6th - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
Feb 7th - Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
Feb 8th - 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL
Feb 9th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
Feb 9th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
Feb 10th - 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
Feb 10th - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
Feb 11th - -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
Feb 11th - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
Feb 12th - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
Feb 13th - 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
Feb 13th - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant
Feb 19th - Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC
Feb 20th - Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
Feb 22nd - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
Feb 26th - Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
Baseball Great Babe Ruth Feb 26th - NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
Feb 26th - RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
Feb 26th - The Luftwaffe is re-formed.
Feb 28th - Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
Feb 28th - Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer
Mar 3rd - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
Mar 5th - 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
Mar 6th - Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
Mar 7th - Saar incorporated into Germany
Mar 9th - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
Mar 11th - Bank of Canada opens
Mar 11th - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
Mar 12th - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
Mar 13th - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
Mar 14th - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
Mar 15th - George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston
Mar 16th - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
Mar 17th - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
Mar 20th - "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
Mar 21st - Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris
Mar 21st - Persia officially renamed Iran
Mar 22nd - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY)
Mar 24th - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
Mar 25th - 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
Mar 26th - "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
Mar 28th - Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
Mar 29th - French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
Mar 30th - Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
Mar 31st - Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49)
Apr 1st - 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
Apr 2nd - Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
Apr 2nd - Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
Apr 3rd - Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
Apr 5th - Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
Apr 6th - H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
Apr 8th - 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282
Apr 8th - Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC
Apr 8th - Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Apr 9th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
Apr 10th - Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
Apr 12th - "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio
Apr 12th - Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
Apr 12th - Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
Apr 12th - First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
Apr 14th - Black Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest (creates the Dust Bowl)
Apr 16th - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
Apr 16th - Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR
Apr 17th - Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs)
Apr 18th - Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
Apr 18th - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
Apr 19th - 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4
Apr 20th - "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
Apr 21st - King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
Apr 23rd - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
Apr 26th - Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
Apr 27th - Brussel's World Expo opens
Apr 27th - Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 634

Jan 1st - Harold Martina, Netherland Antilles, pianist/conductor
Jan 1st - Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut
Jan 1st - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
Jan 4th - Floyd Patterson, heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Oly-gold-1952)
Jan 4th - Kenneth Money, Canada, astronaut (STS 42-alt)
Jan 5th - Nancy L Johnson, (Rep-R-CT, 1983- )
Jan 6th - Nino Tempo, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
Jan 6th - Paul Wilson, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
Jan 6th - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
Jan 7th - Noam Sheriff, composer
Jan 7th - Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35)
Jan 7th - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
Jan 7th - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
Jan 8th - Elvis Aaron Presley, Tupelo Miss, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
Jan 8th - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis
Jan 8th - Nolan Miller, Burkburnett Tx, fashion designer (Dynasty, Love Boat)
Jan 8th - Ian Bargh, Prestwick, Scotland, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (d.2012)
Jan 9th - Bob Denver, New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
Jan 9th - Dick Enberg, Mt Clemens Mich, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley (Jan 8th) Jan 9th - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer
Jan 9th - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
Jan 9th - Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
Jan 9th - Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
Jan 10th - Georg Katzer, composer
Jan 10th - Sherrill Milnes, Hinsdale Illinois, baritone
Jan 10th - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
Jan 11th - Chuck Barksdale, US singer (Dells-I Can Sing a Rainbow)
Jan 11th - Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
Jan 12th - "Amazing" Kreskin, Montclair NJ, mentalist/telepath
Jan 12th - Ron Harper, Turtle Creek Pa, actor (Wendy & Me, Planet of the Apes)
Jan 12th - William Lee Gloden, Brewton Al, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys)
Jan 13th - Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
Jan 13th - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
Jan 14th - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
Jan 15th - Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist
Jan 15th - Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
Jan 16th - A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77)
Jan 17th - Jimmy Powell, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1990 Southwestern Bell Classic)
Jan 17th - Paul O[sborne] Williams, US, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
Jan 17th - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
Jan 18th - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
Jan 18th - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
Jan 18th - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
Jan 19th - Tippi Hedren, Minnesota, actress (The Birds, Marnie, Bold & Beautiful)
Jan 20th - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
Jan 21st - Ann Wedgeworth, Abilene Tx, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
Jan 22nd - Pierre S Du Pont IV, (gov-Del)
Jan 22nd - Sam Cooke, Chicago Ill, soul singer (You Send Me)
Jan 22nd - Seymour Cassel, Detroit, actor (Faces, Plain Clothes, Valentino)
Jan 24th - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
Jan 25th - António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
Jan 26th - Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Wisc, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere)
Jan 26th - Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
Jan 26th - Peter Ronnefeld, composer
Jan 26th - Zbigniew Penherski, composer
Jan 27th - Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge)
Jan 28th - David John Lodge, English writer (Soul & Bodies)
Jan 28th - Leonid Grabovsky, composer
Jan 28th - Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet (Pele do Diabo)
Jan 28th - Nicholas Pryor, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
Jan 30th - Richard Brautigan, Tacoma Washington, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing in America)
Jan 30th - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington
Jan 30th - Martin Taylor, former vice-chairman, Hanson
Jan 31st - Bojidar Dimov, composer
Jan 31st - Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter)
Feb 1st - Ruth Clarke, Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
Feb 1st - Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
Feb 3rd - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
Feb 4th - Martti Talvela, Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso
Feb 4th - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (1st non-Muslim to play for Pakistan)
Feb 5th - Alex Harvey, rocker (Just Visiting This Planet)
Feb 5th - John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South African army
Feb 7th - Herb Kohl, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
Feb 8th - Vincent Weir 3rd baron Inverforth, Scottish shipping magnate
Feb 9th - Paul Flynn, MP
Feb 10th - Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters)
Feb 10th - Salvator Pueyo, composer
Feb 10th - Theodore Antoniou, composer
Feb 11th - Bent Lorentzen, composer
Feb 11th - Gene Vincent, Norfolk Va, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula)
Feb 12th - Gene McDaniels, US vocalist/bandleader/actor (Young Swingers)
Feb 12th - Ken Still, golfer
Feb 13th - Tommy Jacobs, golfer
Feb 13th - Dr. Don Panoz, American entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS)
Feb 14th - Christine CT "Christel" Adelaar, Dutch actress (Pipo the Clown)
Feb 14th - David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
Feb 14th - Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
Feb 14th - Mickey Wright, San Diego CA, LPGA golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
Feb 14th - Peter Phillips, printer
Feb 15th - John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
Feb 15th - Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
Feb 15th - Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills)
Feb 16th - Brian Bedford, England, actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue)
Feb 16th - Robin Clark, chemist (FRS)
Feb 16th - Sonny Bono, Detroit, vocalist (Sonny & Cher)/(Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98)
Feb 16th - Kenneth Price, Los Angeles, California, ceramic artist and print maker (Hot Bottoms, Tamed), (d. 2012)
Feb 17th - Johnny Bush, country singer
Feb 17th - Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
Feb 18th - Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister
Feb 21st - Mark McManus, actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

May 24th - Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX)
Aug 19th - French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris
Oct 8th - Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
Nov 6th - Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
Nov 9th - "Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 123

Jan 6th - George P Baker, US playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
Jan 10th - Charlie McGahey, cricket (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies
Jan 10th - Edwin H Flack, English 800/1500m runner (Oly-gold-1896), dies at 60
Jan 16th - Richard Wetz, composer, dies at 59
Jan 16th - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
Jan 28th - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 75
Feb 3rd - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
Feb 8th - Max Liebermann, Ger impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87
Feb 9th - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61
Feb 12th - Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
Feb 13th - Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78
Feb 23rd - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44
Feb 28th - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16), dies at 73
Feb 28th - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
Mar 3rd - Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
Mar 6th - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
Mar 10th - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82
Mar 16th - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
Mar 16th - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
Mar 23rd - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
Mar 30th - Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer, dies at 51
Apr 5th - Emil Mlynarski, composer, dies at 64
Apr 6th - Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
Apr 8th - Edwin Cannan, economist, dies
Apr 14th - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
Apr 18th - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90
Apr 18th - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
Apr 20th - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92
Apr 24th - Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80
Apr 28th - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87
Apr 29th - Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
May 1st - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
May 11th - Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78
May 12th - Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
May 12th - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
May 15th - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
May 17th - Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
May 19th - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, French composer, dies at 74
May 19th - Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
May 20th - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
May 21st - Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
Social Worker and Nobel Laureate Jane Addams (May 21st) May 21st - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
May 25th - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
May 29th - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
May 30th - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
Jun 1st - Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
Jun 6th - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
Jun 6th - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
Jun 7th - Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
Jun 18th - August Reusner, composer, dies at 64
Jun 22nd - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
Jun 24th - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
Jun 27th - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
Jun 29th - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
Jun 30th - William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies
Jul 2nd - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies
Jul 3rd - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
Jul 5th - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58
Jul 12th - Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies
Jul 15th - Alfred Archer, cricketer (England batsman in one Test 1899), dies
Jul 15th - Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89
Jul 17th - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
Jul 26th - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
Aug 6th - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
Aug 11th - William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies
Aug 12th - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
Aug 15th - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75
Aug 15th - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
Humorist Will Rogers (Aug 15th) Aug 15th - Will Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
Aug 20th - Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
Aug 21st - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
Aug 21st - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
Aug 29th - Astrid S L T Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden, dies
Aug 29th - Charles Lee Williams, composer, dies at 82
Aug 30th - Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62
Aug 31st - Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi/author (Hokhmat Ha-kodesh), dies
Sep 3rd - Johannes Aengenent, bishop of Haarlem (1928-35), dies at 62
Sep 8th - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
Sep 8th - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
Sep 19th - Jules M Cambron, French gov-gen to Algeria/ambassador, dies
Sep 19th - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
Sep 22nd - Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86
Sep 26th - Andy Adams, US writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
Sep 27th - Alan Gray, composer, dies at 79
Sep 28th - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
Oct 4th - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
Oct 4th - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
Oct 6th - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83
Oct 10th - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
Oct 11th - Frank Mitchell, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng then 3 for South Africa), dies
Oct 11th - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
Oct 22nd - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
Oct 23rd - Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
Oct 23rd - Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
Oct 23rd - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
Oct 26th - Akos Buttykai, composer, dies at 64
Oct 27th - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
Nov 2nd - H B &quot;Jock&quot; Cameron, South African cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies
Nov 4th - Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
Nov 5th - Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71