Database Van Broekhoven » Johanna Maria van Heugten (1912-2001)

Day of marriage August 25, 1944

• The temperature on August 25, 1944 was between 13.2 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 6 » World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
  • April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
  • June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
  • August 12 » Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
  • October 2 » World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
  • December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"

Day of death June 23, 2001

• The temperature on June 23, 2001 was between 10.9 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
  • January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
  • June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
  • October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
  • November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936)
• 1998 » Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972)
• 2002 » Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
• 2005 » Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet and critic (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (b. 1926)