Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Govers (1914-1995)

Day of marriage September 26, 1942

• The temperature on September 26, 1942 was between 5.4 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • April 15 » The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
  • May 8 » World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
  • June 8 » World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
  • June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • August 7 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.

Day of death May 21, 1995

• The temperature on May 21, 1995 was between 4.6 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • March 22 » Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
  • July 23 » Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
  • October 27 » Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
  • November 5 » André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
  • November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
  • November 22 » Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (b. 1917)
• 1996 » Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1957)
• 1996 » Villem Raam, Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Robert Gist, American actor and director (b. 1917)