Database Van Broekhoven » Hendrikus Nicolaas van Dongen (1913-1989)

Day of marriage August 18, 1941

• The temperature on August 18, 1941 was between 12.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 15 » Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
  • May 31 » Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
  • October 20 » World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
  • November 7 » World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
  • December 12 » Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.

Day of death January 23, 1989

• The temperature on January 23, 1989 was between 0.8 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison.
  • June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
  • July 19 » United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.
  • August 16 » A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.
  • October 3 » A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
  • November 20 » Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and painter (b. 1921)
• 1988 » Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1989 » Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1989 » Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1952)
• 1991 » Northrop Frye, Canadian author and critic (b. 1912)