Database Van Broekhoven » Catharina Wilhelmina Petronella Huffmeijer (1912-2007)

Day of marriage August 4, 1941

• The temperature on August 4, 1941 was between 11.9 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • May 15 » First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
  • June 27 » World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
  • September 28 » World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
  • September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
  • December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

Day of death September 4, 2007

• The temperature on September 4, 2007 was between 6.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 11 » Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
  • April 12 » A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
  • June 27 » The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
  • June 29 » Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
  • August 8 » An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
  • November 9 » The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
• 2006 » Astrid Varnay, Swedish-American soprano (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Colin Thiele, Australian author, poet, and educator (b. 1920)
• 2006 » Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
• 2006 » Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (b. 1962)
• 2007 » John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire (b. 1923)