Database Van Broekhoven » Marinus van Laarhoven (1920-2000)

Day of marriage May 15, 1945

• The temperature on May 15, 1945 was between 9.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 4 » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
  • March 31 » World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
  • April 7 » World War II: The battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
  • July 23 » The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
  • July 28 » A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
  • October 30 » Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.

Day of death June 19, 2000

• The temperature on June 19, 2000 was between 17.4 °C and 33.5 °C and averaged 25.7 °C. There was 15.3 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
  • April 22 » In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
  • August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • November 13 » Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
  • December 19 » The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 2001 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)