Database Van Broekhoven » Martinus van Loon (1918-1970)

Day of marriage May 19, 1942

• The temperature on May 19, 1942 was between 9.4 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 2 » World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.
  • March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
  • April 17 » French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
  • May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
  • November 10 » World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
  • December 10 » World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.

Day of death February 27, 1970

• The temperature on February 27, 1970 was between -2.1 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
  • April 24 » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
  • May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
  • August 26 » A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
  • November 26 » In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
  • December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1969 » Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 1977 » John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1980 » George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)