Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Adrianus Merkx (1908-1996)

Day of marriage February 18, 1941

• The temperature on February 18, 1941 was between 1.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 9 » World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
  • January 10 » World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
  • April 28 » The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
  • May 10 » World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
  • June 8 » World War II: The Allies commence the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
  • December 5 » World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.

Day of death January 13, 1996

• The temperature on January 13, 1996 was between 6.3 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. 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 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 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
  • February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
  • March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • July 27 » In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
  • October 7 » Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
  • November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer and conductor (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Max Harris, Australian journalist, poet, and author (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Frank Shuster, Canadian actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2003 » Norman Panama, American director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (b. 1937)