Database Van Broekhoven » Petronella Adriana van Engelen (1918-1999)

Day of marriage July 5, 1941

• The temperature on July 5, 1941 was between 6.3 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • March 7 » Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
  • October 20 » World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
  • November 26 » World War II: Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs the Kuril Islands to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • December 12 » World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
  • December 21 » World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
  • December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.

Day of death January 7, 1999

• The temperature on January 7, 1999 was between 5.2 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
  • May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
  • June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • September 7 » The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
  • November 9 » TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
  • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 » James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2002 » Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)