Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes de Graauw (1916-2004)

Day of marriage April 19, 1944

• The temperature on April 19, 1944 was between 0.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 4 » World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
  • March 30 » World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • June 17 » Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • October 18 » World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm Germany.
  • October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.

Day of death February 10, 2004

• The temperature on February 10, 2004 was between 0.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
  • April 25 » The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
  • May 1 » Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
  • October 14 » Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
  • November 11 » New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
  • December 27 » Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (b. 1908)
• 2003 » Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
• 2005 » Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1915)
• 2006 » James Yancey, American record producer and rapper (b. 1974)