Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Petronella Catharina Antonia Korthout (1924-2008)

Day of marriage April 11, 1945

• The temperature on April 11, 1945 was between 3.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. 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 9 » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMSVenturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
  • February 14 » World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
  • April 15 » Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
  • April 29 » World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day.
  • May 2 » World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting.
  • May 11 » World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USSBunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes.

Day of death July 5, 2008

• The temperature on July 5, 2008 was between 8.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • January 18 » The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
  • April 6 » The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
  • May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
  • June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
  • September 11 » A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
• 2006 » Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
• 2007 » George Melly, English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
• 2008 » Hasan Doğan, Turkish businessman (b. 1956)