Database Van Broekhoven » Josephus Martinus van Weert (1918-1997)

Day of marriage February 14, 1941

• The temperature on February 14, 1941 was between 1.8 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
  • March 29 » World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
  • July 26 » World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
  • September 27 » The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
  • 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.
  • November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.

Day of death August 13, 1997

• The temperature on August 13, 1997 was between 13.6 °C and 32.1 °C and averaged 23.3 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 4 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
  • May 27 » The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
  • June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
  • July 1 » China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
  • October 15 » The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
  • December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Alison Hargreaves, English mountaineer (b. 1963)
• 1996 » António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Edward Ginzton, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Julien Green, American author (b. 1900)
• 1998 » Nino Ferrer, Italian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1998 » Rafael Robles, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1947)