Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmus Lucas Arnoldus van Gennip (1923-1957)

Day of marriage July 8, 1948

• The temperature on July 8, 1948 was between 9.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 23.9 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • June 16 » Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
  • August 12 » Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
  • September 17 » The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
  • October 5 » The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.
  • November 22 » Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
  • December 9 » The Genocide Convention is adopted.

Day of death September 8, 1957

• The temperature on September 8, 1957 was between 13.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
  • March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
  • March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
  • April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
  • August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864)
• 1954 » André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1904)
• 1965 » Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 1965 » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Bud Collyer, American game show host (b. 1908)