Database Van Broekhoven » George Antonius Stavast (1916-1992)

Day of marriage May 4, 1943

• The temperature on May 4, 1943 was between 4.4 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • January 31 » World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
  • March 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
  • August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
  • September 16 » World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
  • December 26 » World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

Day of death August 21, 1992

• The temperature on August 21, 1992 was between 13.1 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
  • May 7 » Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
  • May 9 » Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
  • June 17 » A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
  • October 12 » A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
  • December 3 » The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1989 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
• 1993 » Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)