Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelia Maria Rose (1885-1966)

Day of marriage May 25, 1944

• The temperature on May 25, 1944 was between 9.8 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 30 » Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
  • June 15 » In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
  • June 25 » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
  • August 20 » World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
  • August 22 » World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
  • October 18 » World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm Germany.

Day of death January 2, 1966

• The temperature on January 2, 1966 was between 5.6 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
  • March 4 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
  • March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
  • October 1 » West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
  • October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
  • December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
• 1963 » Dick Powell, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1904)
• 1963 » Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b. 1910)
• 1974 » Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Siraj Sikder, Bangladesh revolutionary leader (b. 1944)
• 1977 » Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)