Database Van Broekhoven » Josephus Marinus Damen (1919-1993)

Day of marriage August 9, 1945

• The temperature on August 9, 1945 was between 13.0 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 28.2 mm of rain during 13.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 16 » World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
  • March 29 » World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
  • May 8 » The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • June 5 » The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
  • August 6 » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
  • September 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.

Day of death June 19, 1993

• The temperature on June 19, 1993 was between 13.6 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
  • April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
  • May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
  • July 9 » The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
  • August 9 » The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
  • December 10 » The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 » George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)