Database Van Broekhoven » Franciscus Henricus van den Eventuin (1912-1976)

Day of marriage August 9, 1941

• The temperature on August 9, 1941 was between 11.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • February 5 » World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
  • July 31 » The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
  • October 11 » Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
  • November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
  • December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
  • December 10 » World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMSPrince of Wales and HMSRepulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.

Day of death August 23, 1976

• The temperature on August 23, 1976 was between 10.3 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (94%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
  • April 11 » The Apple I is created.
  • June 25 » Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
  • September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)