Database Van Broekhoven » Petrus Lambertus van de Wiel (1915-2000)

Day of marriage August 7, 1942

• The temperature on August 7, 1942 was between 10.5 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
  • February 23 » World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
  • March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
  • June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
  • July 6 » Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.

Day of death May 19, 2000

• The temperature on May 19, 2000 was between 6.3 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
  • February 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • June 5 » The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
  • July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)
• 1998 » Sōsuke Uno, Japanese soldier and politician, 75th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 » John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
• 2002 » Walter Lord, American historian and author (b. 1917)