Database Van Broekhoven » Catharina Maria Josephina Boons (1919-2008)

Day of marriage August 10, 1943

• The temperature on August 10, 1943 was between 10.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 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 27 » World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
  • April 16 » Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
  • June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
  • October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
  • December 2 » World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SSJohn Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.

Day of death October 31, 2008

• The temperature on October 31, 2008 was between 1.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • July 26 » Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
  • August 16 » The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
  • 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.
  • September 23 » Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
  • November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
  • November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1951)
• 2008 » Studs Terkel, American historian and author (b. 1912)
• 2009 » Mustafa Mahmud, Egyptian physician and author (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (b. 1911)
• 2009 » Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman, founded the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition (b. 1922)