Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Maria Groenen (1914-1992)

Day of marriage November 4, 1944

• The temperature on November 4, 1944 was between 5.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.
  • June 10 » In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
  • June 25 » World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
  • August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
  • September 11 » World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
  • November 7 » Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.

Day of death April 7, 1992

• The temperature on April 7, 1992 was between 6.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • February 4 » A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
  • March 31 » The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
  • April 8 » Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
  • November 21 » A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
  • November 23 » The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • November 24 » China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1991 » Memduh Ünlütürk, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1992 » Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Antonis Tritsis, Greek high jumper and politician, 71st Mayor of Athens (b. 1937)
• 1994 » Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer, manager, and politician (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Lee Brilleaux, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)