Database Van Broekhoven » Marinus Franciscus Bekkers (1907-1990)

Day of marriage April 16, 1941

• The temperature on April 16, 1941 was between -1.1 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 25 » Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
  • April 23 » World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
  • July 26 » World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
  • September 20 » The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police murder 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
  • October 4 » Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
  • December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

Day of death July 19, 1990

• The temperature on July 19, 1990 was between 9.6 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
  • January 12 » A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
  • January 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
  • February 13 » German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
  • July 16 » The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
  • August 6 » Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1913)
• 1990 » Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1940)
• 1994 » Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (b. 1896)