Database Van Broekhoven » Theodorus Maria van Dijk (1909-1944)

Day of marriage July 23, 1935

• The temperature on July 23, 1935 was between 7.8 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
  • February 26 » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
  • August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
  • August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
  • October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.

Day of death September 24, 1944

• The temperature on September 24, 1944 was between 5.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
  • June 10 » World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
  • August 5 » World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
  • August 23 » World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
  • August 28 » World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
  • December 17 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Lev Schnirelmann, Belarusian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (b. 1867)
• 1939 » Charles Tatham, American fencer (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)