Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Antonia Maurits (1916-1996)

Day of marriage July 29, 1942

• The temperature on July 29, 1942 was between 11.2 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 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 year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 8 » World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
  • March 18 » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
  • May 31 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • September 15 » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSWasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.

Day of death September 24, 1996

• The temperature on September 24, 1996 was between 4.0 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
  • February 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  • February 17 » The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
  • March 23 » Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
  • August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
  • August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
• 1994 » Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (b. 1932)
• 1996 » Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1998 » Jeff Moss, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1942)