Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Hendricus Antonissen (1903-1961)

Day of marriage August 30, 1946

• The temperature on August 30, 1946 was between 9.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • May 8 » Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
  • May 10 » First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
  • July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
  • July 5 » Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
  • July 22 » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
  • October 1 » The Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.

Day of death June 15, 1961

• The temperature on June 15, 1961 was between 2.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
  • May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
  • May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
  • June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
  • June 19 » Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
  • September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1962 » Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1925)