Database Van Broekhoven » Henricus Johannes "Harrie" Manders (1917-1985)

Day of marriage July 7, 1942

• The temperature on July 7, 1942 was between 11.4 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (55%). 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 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.
  • February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
  • April 17 » French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
  • May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
  • July 6 » Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • July 23 » World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
  • September 9 » World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.

Day of death March 15, 1985

• The temperature on March 15, 1985 was between -1.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
  • April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
  • June 17 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
  • October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during "Operation Wooden Leg".
  • November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Rebecca West, English author and critic (b. 1892)
• 1985 » Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and author (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (b. 1897)
• 1987 » Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1899)
• 1988 » Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926)