Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Antonius Klerks (1914-1990)

Day of marriage August 27, 1942

• The temperature on August 27, 1942 was between 16.0 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 23.7 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
  • May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
  • June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • June 28 » World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
  • July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
  • September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

Day of death September 2, 1990

• The temperature on September 2, 1990 was between 13.9 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 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 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
  • March 11 » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
  • April 9 » Thirteen thousand members of the Dene and Métis tribes sign a land claim agreement for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000sqmi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
  • July 11 » Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
  • September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
  • December 1 » Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
• 1985 » M. Alalasundaram, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician
• 1987 » Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player (b. 1935)
• 1990 » Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (b. 1937)
• 1991 » Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)