Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Henricus van Dijk (1910-1993)

Day of marriage June 7, 1940

• The temperature on June 7, 1940 was between 8.7 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 14.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • May 20 » The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
  • July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
  • August 19 » First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
  • September 12 » An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
  • November 16 » The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
  • December 14 » Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Day of death December 27, 1993

• The temperature on December 27, 1993 was between 1.5 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
  • April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
  • May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
  • May 10 » In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
  • July 29 » The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
  • November 9 » Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Kay Boyle, American novelist, poet, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1993 » André Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1993 » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (b. 1902)
• 1994 » Fanny Cradock, English author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1994 » J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1902)