Database Van Broekhoven » Johanna Maria Petronella van Helmond (1907-1991)

Day of marriage November 13, 1940

• The temperature on November 13, 1940 was between 6.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » You Nazty Spy!, the first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
  • May 28 » World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
  • June 25 » World War II: The French armistice with Germany comes into effect.
  • August 5 » World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
  • September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
  • December 14 » Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Day of death June 25, 1991

• The temperature on June 25, 1991 was between 14.0 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 10.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
  • May 28 » The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
  • June 7 » Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3mi) high.
  • July 1 » Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
  • September 6 » The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
  • October 27 » Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1962)
• 1990 » Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (b. 1940)
• 1992 » Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
• 1995 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Warren E. Burger, Fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1914)