Database Van Broekhoven » Catharina Adriana Antonetta Klijn (1921-2015)

Day of marriage May 30, 1944

• The temperature on May 30, 1944 was between 13.2 °C and 31.5 °C and averaged 22.4 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • February 23 » The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
  • April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
  • October 2 » World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
  • October 5 » The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
  • October 26 » World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
  • November 10 » The ammunition ship USSMount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.

Day of death January 28, 2015

• The temperature on January 28, 2015 was between 3.0 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
  • February 11 » A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
  • May 9 » An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
  • August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
  • October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
  • November 5 » An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1930)
• 2014 » John Cacavas, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
• 2015 » Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954)
• 2015 » Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)