Database Van Broekhoven » Michiel Lambertus Kapitein (1910-1996)

Day of marriage November 16, 1942

• The temperature on November 16, 1942 was between 2.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
  • February 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
  • March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • April 26 » Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
  • May 8 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USSLexington.
  • June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

Day of death January 12, 1996

• The temperature on January 12, 1996 was between 7.5 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
  • April 3 » Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
  • April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
  • August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
  • August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
  • November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Gustav Naan, Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1997 » Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
• 1998 » Roger Clark, English racing driver (b. 1939)
• 1999 » Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1961)