Database Van Broekhoven » Jacobus Petrus Monsieurs (1905-1984)

Day of marriage November 7, 1942

• The temperature on November 7, 1942 was between 6.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. 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)
• 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
  • February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
  • June 22 » World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
  • August 26 » At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
  • October 30 » World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
  • December 4 » World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.

Day of death November 20, 1984

• The temperature on November 20, 1984 was between 4.5 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • February 22 » President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.
  • June 3 » Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
  • October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
  • October 16 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • November 19 » San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
  • December 22 » "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Carlo Campanini, Italian actor, singer and comedian (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1911)
• 1984 » Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)