Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelis Antonius Maria Luijten (1912-1988)

Day of marriage June 24, 1940

• The temperature on June 24, 1940 was between 10.7 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
  • June 14 » The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
  • June 17 » World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
  • August 15 » An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiserElli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
  • August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
  • October 14 » World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.

Day of death January 9, 1988

• The temperature on January 9, 1988 was between 2.0 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
  • March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
  • June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
  • September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  • December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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