Database Van Broekhoven » Antoon Fransen (1916-1972)

Day of marriage April 8, 1944

• The temperature on April 8, 1944 was between 0.9 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • April 25 » The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
  • July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
  • August 2 » World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
  • September 4 » World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
  • October 27 » World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

Day of death March 9, 1972

• The temperature on March 9, 1972 was between -1.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
  • April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
  • May 26 » The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
  • June 9 » Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160million in damage.
  • July 21 » The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
  • September 6 » Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)