Database Van Broekhoven » Adrianus Hendrikus van de Laak (1907-1991)

Day of marriage May 18, 1942

• The temperature on May 18, 1942 was between 9.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
  • March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
  • April 15 » The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
  • July 10 » World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
  • August 24 » World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USSEnterprise is heavily damaged.
  • December 4 » World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.

Day of death March 27, 1991

• The temperature on March 27, 1991 was between 2.0 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • May 5 » A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
  • May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
  • June 17 » Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
  • August 20 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • August 20 » Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
  • November 26 » National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1990 » Percy Beard, American hurdler and coach (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 » Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
• 1992 » James E. Webb, American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Lang Hancock, Australian businessman (b. 1909)