Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmus Willemse (1917-2005)

Day of marriage April 17, 1942

• The temperature on April 17, 1942 was between 6.2 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 18 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
  • April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
  • May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
  • July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
  • August 15 » World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SSOhio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
  • September 7 » World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.

Day of death March 24, 2005

• The temperature on March 24, 2005 was between 7.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 15 » ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
  • August 2 » Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
  • October 15 » A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.
  • October 28 » I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is indicted due to his involvement in the Plame affair.
  • November 9 » The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)
• 2002 » César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2003 » Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)
• 2008 » Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)