Database Van Broekhoven » Jan Burgerhout (1920-2000)

Day of marriage June 16, 1943

• The temperature on June 16, 1943 was between 6.1 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
  • April 26 » The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
  • June 19 » The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
  • July 23 » World War II: The British destroyers HMSEclipse and HMSLaforey sink the Italian submarineAscianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMSNewfoundland.
  • October 19 » The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
  • November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Day of death February 24, 2000

• The temperature on February 24, 2000 was between 4.3 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (15%). The almost completely overcast 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
  • May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
  • June 5 » The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
  • June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  • June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
  • November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Antonio Prohías, Cuban-American cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Henny Youngman, English-American comedian and violinist (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (b. 1936)
• 2001 » Claude Shannon, American mathematician, cryptographer, and engineer (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Leo Ornstein, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1893)