Database Van Broekhoven » Joseph Hubertus Duijmelinks (1921-1958)

Day of marriage December 29, 1945

• The temperature on December 29, 1945 was between 0.5 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 23 » World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
  • April 7 » World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
  • April 25 » The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
  • April 29 » World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
  • September 2 » Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
  • September 18 » General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.

Day of death April 26, 1958

• The temperature on April 26, 1958 was between 7.6 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 11.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
  • May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
  • August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
  • August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
  • December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
• 1964 » E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882)
• 1968 » John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891)