Database Van Broekhoven » Willebrordus Nicolaas Maria Staffhorst (1909-1944)

Day of marriage January 14, 1937

• The temperature on January 14, 1937 was between 1.8 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 14.8 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
  • April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
  • July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
  • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.

Day of death September 25, 1944

• The temperature on September 25, 1944 was between 4.8 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
  • April 22 » World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
  • June 5 » World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
  • September 13 » World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.
  • December 26 » World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (b. 1885)
• 1939 » Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (b. 1867)
• 1943 » Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (b. 1909)