Database Van Broekhoven » Adriana Petronella Josephina Geurts (1919-1997)

Day of marriage February 11, 1943

• The temperature on February 11, 1943 was between 4.2 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
  • March 14 » The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
  • March 19 » Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
  • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
  • June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
  • November 28 » World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.

Day of death January 22, 1997

• The temperature on January 22, 1997 was between 0.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
  • May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
  • July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
  • September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
  • December 6 » A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
  • December 30 » In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Graham Staines, Australian-Indian missionary and translator (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)